Today in Reflection

This morning I went out to eat with the family for breakfast like we commonly do on sunday mornings, and the conversations quickly turned from Nascar and football to ordination of ministers and churches. It has been enticing during the last month to see a growing interest in many of my family members' hearts about religion and God. In some ways this is provoked by my desire to do ministry, but since I have been home from college they also see me going to church often (which is out of the ordinary from when I left home five years ago). College prepared me for many things, but it never prepared me to challenge everything I set my roots in growing up.

Well, after breakfast I talked my mother and grandmother into attending church with me, and I attempted to do the same with the men in my family, but with the call rejected, I drove the women in the family (giving them door service of course) to a message on the importance of answering the most vital question we ever come across in our lives. "Who's Jesus to you?"

This question and it's vitality to our lives, so invaluable and needed as bread and water, re-evaluates the sole beneath our feet as we walk on so many sharp, broken pieces and through boiling water on our daily journey (whether we know Christ or not). In Mark 8: 29, Jesus asks "but what about you? Who do you say I am?" Peter, the one disciple Jesus asks to be the leader of his church after he descends into heaven, confesses, "You are the Christ." God asks us all to have a relationship with him and recieve his nurturing, his nourishment. I challenge you to take 5 minutes out of your day today and just ask yourself that question? you see, cause the problem is that when you accept what the world has to say about Jesus, or what organized religion has to say about Jesus, you lose the chance for eternal peace, eternal joy, eternal life. If these are true then life is chaos, and life is meaningless (just as it says in Ecclesiastes) and life is not really living, but merely exhisting. Please, I beg you, don't be one of those that misses the point. Being a Christian is not a religion, not a building, not good works or doing the right thing. Pray and read your bible because all God has ever asked from you is for a relationship with Him.

So, "Who's Jesus to you?"