Got...Jesus?

I consider myself to be a reasonable person. I don’t bungee cord jump off mountains, I don’t watch scary movies after six in the evening, and hmm lets see…..I don’t usually ride my Motor Bike without a helmet. I would say that I am a fairly sensible, logical and fairly practical in my thinking. Of course there are those who know me personally that would disagree.

However, as it relates to my belief in Jesus my logic and reason according to some folks takes a sabbatical. Have you ever stoped to think what we Christians say we believe?

We assert that God wrote the bible and that this bible is without error. Meaning every word and idea is Truth. The stories in this book the bible go far beyond any human logic. I mean to tell you, listen to this; men talk to bushes that are on fire but never burn completely. Seas separate and millions of folks walk through on dry land. These same people live in the dessert for 40 years and God feeds them with food from heaven. He keeps them warm with a fire at night, keeps them cool with a cloud in the day, they lived in a desert people!!!!!! Check this out, their cloths never get old and their shoes never ware out. I mean using the restroom had to be a nightmare.

Here’s one that always struck me as hard to believe a fish swallows a man and that man lived inside the fish for three days. No worries the fish puked him up onto dry-land after the third day and then the guy wised up and decided it was better to obey God. How about this one, bet you thought I forgot about this one didn’t you. God tells his nation of warriors to march around a huge wall for some days and then He instructs them that at the end of their marching just blow your trumpets and the walls surrounding this city are gonna fall down FLAT. Sure-nuff they do it, they obeyed and Lickity-Split, just like that those walls FELL FLAT.

Here’s the best one of all. The bible, the book teaches us that God impregnated a virgin who’s name was Mary. Mary gives birth to the God Man whose name was Jesus. Jesus taught the people of his day that he was sent from God and that he was also God’s Son. Jesus also taught that they, the people did not have to See God. Because when they saw him they were at the same time “Seeing God,” because he and God were one and the same person. This made the religious leaders of his day furious and they plotted and schemed and had Jesus murdered. No worries because according to the book after three Days He Walked Out of the Tomb alive and well. He eventually showed himself to hundreds of people and walked around on earth for 40 more days before he goes back to Heaven, promising to return at some point in the future.

Ok, what’s the point of all this I want you to listen clearly to the alternative. We were not created by God at all. No a thousands time no, In fact nothing was created by God at all. A billion or so years ago somewhere in the outer galaxies things got so heated that an explosion occurred. Well this explosion caused matter to float around in space. This matter floated and eventually a big ball formed because all the matter began to stick together once everything cooled-off. This gigantic ball eventually grew trees and vegetation and what-not. Then the unthinkable occurred a few random cells connected on this floating ball and formed amino acids. These amino acids formed the basis for all life on this ball that we now call Earth. Essentially after a few billion years these primitive cells grew to become what we know now as animals, ocean life, and yea go figure, Humans.

My friend my brain is not on sabbatical at all, anyone who believes that load of hot-air, not only are they not thinking. But it requires more faith to believe that nonsense than it does to simply trust in what God’s Word Says. Not a single one of us will walk up to an automobile and accept the notion that it just appeared. Nor should we accept the notion that we or the earth and everything in it, just appeared. God created us he gave us a book that gives to us the answer and also a road map on how we can have an abundant life. I want to leave you with a verse of scripture that sparked all of this pontificatin, its found in Colossians1:16-17 “For by Jesus were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Jesus, and for Jesus: And Jesus is before all things, and by Jesus all things consist.” Jesus the God-Man is the explanation and the answer. If you have not made him your Lord and Savior do it today. Got……….Jesus?