JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD

Jesus said to Thomas,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you know me, you will know my Father also.
From now on you do know
him and have seen him.”
John 14: 6, 7

The Bible makes it clear that Jesus is the Son of God.  God the Father sent Jesus into the world so that children, women, and men would be able to see God, to understand God, and to find it easier to come to know God.

Jesus existed before time and before the creation of the world as the Word of God.  In the Father’s own time, The Word was sent as a baby, born in a manger.  The baby was called “Jesus”, which means “Deliverer”.  As the baby grew and became an adult, Jesus grew more and more in favor with God and with humankind.  When he grew up to be a man, Jesus was ready to enter into his time of public ministry: teaching and healing, preaching and loving. 

But Jesus’ ministry and all that he stood for brought him into conflict with the secular and religious powers of his day.  He represented God’s judgment upon the way that the world did things.  Eventually, the powers of this world rose up and put him to death on the Cross because Jesus would not sell out who he was and is. 

When Jesus died, he did so by his own choice.  He died so that our sins would be forgiven.  Jesus loves us so much that he was even willing to endure the pain and the shame of the Cross for our salvation.

To have a personal relationship with Jesus is the point of all of Christianity.  It is in that relationship that we become friends with Jesus, learn to live the way that he wants us to live, and to live the way that he made us to live.  To walk with Jesus is to become closer and closer to him, just as we become closer to any friend when we spend time with that person.  Spending time with Jesus transforms our lives away from our natural selfish bent to a new way of living.

Jesus continues to show us the way to live when we read the Bible, and when we talk to him.  Talking to Jesus is called “prayer”, and it is nothing more than chatting with our best friend.  When we talk to Jesus, we can trust him never to betray us, always to forgive us, and never to turn his back on us. 

Jesus is our Lord and Savior.  He is our Lord because he directs our steps and our lives.  He is our Savior because he died and rose from the dead for the forgiveness of our sins.  He is our best friend, our guardian, and our God.