Who Is Jesus?

     To me, so much depends on who we believe Jesus is.   If we believe He spoke the truth, it should change everything for us. He fulfilled Old Testament prophecy to a tee. He is the focal point of both testaments. He said in John, "Before Abraham was, I AM." He claimed to be the light of the world, He claimed to be the way, the truth, the life. He claimed to be the alpha and omega. He said that He and His Father were one. He claimed to forgive sins and He accepted worship. He claimed to be the ONLY way. He performed countless miracles to verify His claims. When Thomas touched the nail scars on His hands and put his hand in his side, he said "Oh Lord, My God." Jesus said, "you believe because you have seen Me. Blessed are those who haven't seen Me and believe anyway."

    I've always loved the way C.S. Lewis put it in Mere Christianity.  He wrote, "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 was merely a man and 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 up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to."

     I believe that Jesus Christ is the God of the Universe and the Savior of the world, just as He claimed.  Believing this changes everything.