I was thinking . . . It’s the ultimate question. Everything hinges on the answer to this one question. It was asked long ago, but it’s still relevant today. All these years later, it remains a question that demands an answer. They first asked the question on a boat. A storm had arisen. It seemed the boat might capsize and they would all drown. He didn’t seem to be all that concerned. In fact, He was asleep while the storm raged. So, they woke Him. Asked Him if He cared if they drowned. His response? He told the storm to stop. To be quiet. And it did. And that’s when they asked the question. Amazed that He could quiet a storm by telling it to stop, they asked, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey Him!” That’s it. That’s the question. Who is this? That’s the question whose answer will determine our lives today and forever. Who is this? Who is this one called Jesus? The great writer and thinker, C. S. Lewis, argued that his words and deeds demand an answer. A real answer. Not a wavering, maybe, middle-of-the-road kind of an answer. But a real answer. A definite answer. Said Lewis: I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. So, let us answer. Let us not avoid the question. Let us not get so busy in the activities of life that we fail to address the single most important question that has ever been asked. Let us not attach more importance to the fleeting and temporal matters of our existence and refrain from addressing those eternal and ultimate issues of life. Who . . . is . . . this?
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:30:39 +0000
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