Well it's getting relatively late, but I wanted to talk a little bit about my today and something that occurred to me. At my college we have optional chapel on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and as I was worshiping in chapel today it hit me how great of a blessing it is that I can have time set out in my day to go and worship for an hour with other believers and to be taught something from scripture. How cool is that? And it's not mandatory! I can't really say that I have many friends from high school who have such an awesome opportunity and I am so thankful for it! It is such a blessing. After church on Sunday I've really been trying to proclaim the Gospel to myself as often as possible and chapel is such a good time to be able to do that because many of the songs we worship to are filled with it. What a beautiful reminder during the day!
We've been going through a series called "Grounded for Life" where we've been looking at what could be considered 'the basics' of the Christian faith and today we talked about Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension. One point in particular caught my interest from today's message and it was a quote from C.S. Lewis in his book 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."
Wow, he says it so well, how stupid humanity is for trying to claim He was a great moral teacher. I mean come on, Jesus can't even be called that if everything He said about Himself was a lie because last time I checked it wouldn't make any sense for a "good moral teacher" to lie about his identity while doing his "good person" thing. Oh humanity, open your eyes so that you may see Truth! How our selfish, sinful selves keep us from Love. I pray that eyes and ears would be opened and hearts softened so that they too could have the beautiful Gospel of our Lord Jesus the Christ proclaimed to them and be known by them as Truth.
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