Who is Jesus to You

Who is Jesus to you, and what does His story mean to you? To me, Jesus is the Christ, the Son of Man, the Holy One, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the Prince of Peace, the Savior of the World. If you asked me on a deeper level, He is the One and Only, my Daddy, my Father, my Best Friend. He is the One and the One who is to come, my Confident, my Redeemer, He is my Light when my world is full of darkness, He is my Go-To when I need comfort, He is my Counselor and my Steady in the midst of the storm.

As we all know, His life story is recorded in the Gospel of Luke. From the first chapter of Luke in verse thirty-one through thirty-three is where Jesus is first mentioned, to His death and resurrection and the ascension of Jesus in chapter twenty-four verses fifty through fifty-three. Luke 1:31-33 ESV 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give Him the Throne of His father David, 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His Kingdom there will be no end.

His story, to me, is my most favorite story in the Bible. No one else has every given birth to a child, The Child of the World, that was a virgin, and never will, ever again. His story, even from the beginning; before He was ever conceived from the Holy Spirt, was an amazing story found in Luke 1:26-38.

God loved us so much, that He gave His One and Only Son (John 3:16). God knew exactly what was going to happen to Him. For God did not send Jesus into this world to condemn it, but to save it! (John 3:17) Even from the very beginning, God had it all planned out. What God prophesied, came true. From the warning of the Messiah coming, to His birth, to His signs and wonders, to His death and resurrection. Just look in Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 53, Micah 5:2, Daniel 9:24-27, Numbers 24:17 and Malachi 3:1. You cannot tell me there is no God and no Jesus. From everything that God said would happen, it did!

As we are in this season of Palm Sunday, the Passover, Good Friday, and Easter, take a moment to reflect on, and connect with Jesus. Read and study in Luke. Look at Jesus, how He came here, what miracles He performed while He was here, what He preached (Matthew 5, 6, and 7). He is loving, kind, compassionate, empathetic, graceful, merciful, forgiving, peaceful, etc. He is a good, good Father. He loves us no matter who we are. He cares for us no matter what we have done. He just wants your heart.  

To have been able to live in the days that Jesus walked on this Earth with others had to have been the best time this place has ever known. Imagine getting to walk with Him, and listen to Him preach personally. Imagine having the worst day of your life, and He walk up to you, and hug you and say, “My child, it is all going to be alright, you must only believe.” Man! To get a hug from Jesus when having a horrible day, or to just be in His presence. Yes, I know that we can feel Him near us in our intimacy with Him, but to feel His presence, see Him, touch Him. Is a physical difference. The body craves physical, and to physically be with Jesus, I cannot even fathom how amazing it must have been. 

Do you struggle today with distance? There are seasons I go through in my life that I do struggle with distance from God, and I am in that very season now. I struggle with His closeness. However, it is no fault of Jesus, just mine because I have allowed the enemy to have a front row seat into my life, and I’ve allowed him to sit at my table for far too long. I admit, I have issues with wanting to fix everything myself.

 I have been far too independent for far too long. If I could just learn to give it all to Jesus in the beginning, and allow Him to fix it, He would fix it and fix it far better than I ever could. But, no! I have to take it, try to fix it, mess it up, allow satan to have a chair, end up with chaos and this darkness of feeling alone. Then ask God, “why have you left me” when it was I that left Him. By the time I allow God, yes, allow Him to have it, the damage has already been done. However, this is where the grace, forgiveness and goodness of Jesus come from. He forgives me every. single. time.  

Do I feel that sometimes as humans we take Jesus’ forgiveness for granted? Speaking for myself, I believe I do. Not saying I’m going to commit the sin, and say things like, “Oh, Jesus will forgive me if I do this or that,” but I do believe that I sometimes I think it’s easier knowing all I have to do is ask forgiveness and He will be there to forgive me. Now, I am not saying we can do things willfully, and say, oh God’s got my back, I’m going to go do this, and just ask forgiveness afterwards. That, my friends, is not how Jesus works. I have to admit, in the past, I have been guilty of this. I believe that Jesus forgives all sins, but we are to only have stumbles, if that makes since. Stumbles are little things that we struggle with daily in our walk as believers.

Let’s look at Jesus for a moment. When all the elders of the times before Jesus was born, they had heard what the prophet Isaiah spoke of, they assumed Jesus was coming as a soldier to defeat the Roman’s and set the Jews free. If this were true, then only Jewish people would be allowed in Heaven, and if that’s true, look at the parable in Matthew 7:7-8. 7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For EVERYONE who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Do we know what Jesus Himself is speaking of here? He is speaking about the righteousness of God. Just as in John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. NO ONE comes to the Father except through Me.

As you can see from above Scripture, anyone can make it into Heaven, you just have to believe in Jesus and the Father. You have to live your life according to God’s commands. Above all, love Jesus, love God, love your neighbors and love yourself.

In closing, don’t be like me and try and fix everything on your own. I tend to make a bigger mess than what it started out being, and had I just allowed Jesus to fix it in the beginning, I wouldn’t live with the regret and the chaos satan brought to the table. Ask yourself today, who is Jesus to you? Is He your all-in-all, is He above everything, is He at the top of your priorities, is He guiding your life; or are you guiding it?

Scripture for The Week

The whole book of Luke

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:17

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 53

(The whole chapter)

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me One who is to be Ruler in Israel, Whose coming forth is from old, from ancient days.

Numbers 24:16-17

16 The oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered: 17 I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send my messenger, and He will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, He is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

I truly hope you enjoyed the message prepared to you today.

This is a blog post from Remain in Faith, praying you have a blessed and joyful day today, and all this week!