Is all I need Jesus?
Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by William Jacobson in Christian Living
Is all I need Jesus?
Sure I say it and preach it and swear by it. But is it a functional reality in my life? Is my soul living on the very reality that without Gods word and His call I would die? What do I mean by this you may ask. Well, for one, do I read the bible everyday as if my very life depended on it? Because it does. WHAT?!!!! Did I just say that?! Yes I did. My very life depends on the very words of God himself. Secondly, am I so distracted and beaten down by sin that I am of no use. Has it taken so much out me that I am left unfruitful in the ministry?
Is all I need Jesus?
Am I content with being a very lazy person? Do I really believe my life is super short? Do I really believe that even if I live to be 100 years old, that my life still would have been but a vapor? Do I realistically realize that I could die tomorrow? Is this a reality to me that I may not be here physically tomorrow? Wow, what a sobering thought. Just think about this possibility. Every moment is a gift of grace from God. I have waken up every morning by the sheer grace of God. WOW. How does my life look like in response to this gift? Does it look like it should? I don’t think it does.
Is all I need Jesus?
All I need IS Jesus. I am so painfully aware of this fact. Why do I say painfully? Because I see how much I have not depended on Him and it hurts me to think that I have slapped Him in the face like this. I am so ashamed. To be so ignorant to the fact that I can do nothing and have NEVER done anything in myself. I am so wretched. I am so jacked up. I am my own disease. But thanks be to God that I am loved and redeemed. I am cared for, forgiven and held tightly. I am loved with such a love that I may never understand or comprehend.
Thank you Jesus that despite, ME, you are still God and never cease to be.
Tanner
Feb 13th, 2010
Interesting.
I really enjoy Dr. Keller’s take on our dependance on Christ for everything.
When we look at our everyday lives and see our dependance on the transient things around us, our desires to make little gods is astounding.
I like the picture of Jesus in the Garden asking the Father if there is any other way for our sin to be atoned for. Despite the shame that he is going to face and knows he has to face, he still utters “but thy will be done”. Amazing.
I think in order for us to be dependant only on Christ we have to realize…
The Problem: We can’t be dependant on Christ in our flesh, by “trying really hard everyday”
The Example: Christ’s dependance and faith in the father is the example of the dependance and faith we should have in Him.
The Solution: We must put full faith in Christ to, through his own example, transform us into willing servants of him, not concerned with anything in this world but the spreading of the Gospel.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:1 & 2)