Today’s post is an excerpt from a post originally published December 2012.
In these final few hours before Christmas morning, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to seriously consider the real reason for the season.
Who is Jesus, really?
This question is the most important one you—or I—will ever answer and here’s why.
JESUS CHANGES US FOREVER
If we do believe that Jesus was not just God’s son, but God Himself, then the moment we choose to believe this, our lives can never be the same. God—who pushed some dirt between His fingers, thrust it into space and called it earth—that God shrank Himself into a three inch embryo and stuck Himself to the wall of a teenager for nine months. If we choose to believe that this God and Jesus are the same people, then we have more serious questions to ponder. Never will we be challenged with mystery of this magnitude.
If God did this, the natural next question is, Why? Clearly God would never do something like this for fun or even for his own benefit. The act was completely altruistic. The answer is chilling: because we, who call ourselves humans, needed it.
And there is the…
