He is Lord

Romans 10:9 - If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Our christian walk begins in Christ when we accept Him as our Lord and Saviour. We surrender our lives completely to His Lordship and believe that at the cross He has completely saved us from our sins. Christ is the only answer to all our problems. Reminds me of a quote I read, “It does not matter what the question is, the answer is Jesus”.

And that is the reality, the ultimate truth. But unfortunately we are living in a high paced world that has abundance of knowledge. Things are rapidly improving and it seems more knowledge is gained. But unless the truth of the gospel is not known, salvation is not gained. The reason why I keep on repeating the same expression over and over again is because as christians we sometimes get so caught up with everything else that we slowly forget Christ. We forget the very reason why we accepted Him as our Lord and Saviour. We need Him because we cannot do it on our own. Galatians 2:20 says “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”.

C.S Lewis in Mere Christianity -

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

Let us get back to the basics of the gospel. Christ should be our reflex action to any problems that we face. Surrender to Him. Being in Christ Jesus means recognizing and being conscious of the presence of Christ every moment that is living in us. Just recognizing that every moment, I dare you to be discouraged.

Samuel Thomas (Sam)

Sam is a Christian minister who is serving the Lord in various capacities. He is an integral part of MTU, New Delhi and is also ministering with Crossway Church. He can be reached on samvthom16@gmail.com