Jesus, the Christ
0 comments | Posted by Steven Layson on 03 Jul 2011 in From Steve's Study ::
From a worldly point of view, Jesus was a very unremarkable person. He was born in a backwater town in a small corner of the Roman Empire. His parents were poor and unimportant. He spent the first 30 years of his life in complete obscurity. When he did finally appear in the public sphere, he only had a very short period of influence… his ministry lasted only three years. Much of this time was spent wandering the “back-blocks” of Israel spending time with the society’s “down-and-outs”.
When he finally did start to have an impact on the people in power, they managed to have him quietly put away. Executed at the order of a mid-level Roman bureaucrat. He never made contact with the people that “matter”, in Rome. He never wrote a book. He didn’t lead an army or inspire a rebellion.
And yet, despite this seeming insignificance, Jesus is the most revered, hated and influential figures in the whole of history. Two thousand years after his death, Jesus the man remains as hot a topic as ever. The opinions about Jesus are countless.
So, why is this? What makes this man so unique? Paul tells us in today’s passage, from Colossians 1:15f. The reason this man is so different is that he is not just a man – he is “the image of the invisible God”. God himself, who created all things & rules all things came to earth in the person of Jesus. He is “before all things, and in him all things hold together”.
He has had influence like no one else because no one else is God! Our faith, our hope and our salvation rest entirely on his shoulders. How we respond to him will change our eternal destiny, for he offers us eternal life.
So, how have you responded to this man? Is he the centre of your life as he is the centre of all life? Have you offered your life to him with humble thanks? No one will change your life as Jesus can. Don’t make the mistake of viewing him only from a worldly standpoint. See him as he is – the Lord and Saviour of us all.
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