I am often asked why Jesus? Man I don’t need Jesus I am just as good as
those guys. Actually you may be
better than them; there are a lot of really moral non-Christians. Seriously, I see
Christians and they still got problems so I guess all that church stuff doesn’t
work. Yep, that is true, Jesus
doesn’t take away all the problems of this life, work is work, bad things
happen, and sometimes you get a raw deal. So if that is true then why do I need or want Jesus, why do
you? Here is what I tell them.
We were created in the image of God and were intended to be
in communion with Him which we see in the garden. Genesis 2:19-20 God brought
the animals to Adam and allowed him to name them, Genesis 3:8, God walked in
the garden, calling to Adam. By these statements we know that Adam had a
relationship with God. There was communion of the created with the creator. Isaiah
43:21 states that the people God formed for himself will proclaim his praise,
so he created us to glorify him, so He alone is praised. 1St
Corinthians 10:31 tells us “do all to the glory of God.
So I will submit that we are here to glorify God and walk in
communion with him. Either you have
agreed to see where I go with this and you will keep reading or you just
determined I am untrained, poorly educated, and clearly unskilled and are not
going any further with this. Awesome!!
for the those still
reading let’s look at why Jesus?.......
So do we need communion and glorification of and with the
Father God in order to be happy?? Yes, without the communion we were created
for we will have an empty spot in our life. We see this all the time, a generation
of people that promote themselves through social media, everyone wants to have
value. There is a need to feel purpose. We attempt to find purpose in career,
we find that in family, we find that in social causes, or the next material
thing we desire. We seek things to fill the empty spot that was meant for God,
and when we seek stuff to fill that we sin, the more we put between us and our
intended function of communion and glorification the further that we get from
God. All that is not of God is sin. Since the beginning of time, with Adam and
Eve the devil has been telling us that we can use the “fruit”
of sin to fill the spot intended for God. The fruit of sin has always
been choosing our desire over what God has created and instructed for us to be.
This is the lie that the devil has been telling us for years. “You don’t need to give up all the stuff your pursuing, it
makes you a better person”, but does it bring you closer or further away
from God?
I know what you are thinking, we still haven’t gotten to why
Jesus? I told you about what you need to be happy so that I can tell you who
can get you there. Jesus came and created a way for us as sinful creatures to
no longer live separate from God. Through Jesus (his selfless actions and
sinless life) he carried our sin to the cross, he died willingly, then rose again.
Allowing us to return to communion with God through the Holy Spirit, the Holy
Spirit comes to us after salvation and allows a two way communion between us
and the Father God.
The Holy Spirit does this by replacing all those things that
we tell no one about with Joy. All of us have those secrets we want no one to
know about, those things that the devil will drag up when we start to turn to
God. The devil uses them to remind us why we should or could not be accepted.
Jesus has already paid for all of those things; the devil reminds you of things
God no longer remembers.
God remembers no sin that was washed
away by the blood of Jesus.
Jesus takes those sins away, provides the Holy Spirit, allows
communion, and brings JOY. JOY guys, is doing what you were made for. JOY is
better than happiness, happiness can be found in things and will pass way. JOY
is forever, it is communion with God.
So why Jesus? Because
there is a Joy you were intended to have, but you cannot get there on you own,
only through him.
Jesus is the key
to JOY!
