This morning, I have been thinking about that question, "What is Jesus to me?" My first reaction is to give the typical Sunday school answer, "He is my everything," but is this really true? Do my actions and decisions reflect that Jesus is my all? Honestly, the answer would have to be sometimes he is and other times he shares the limelight with other things. This breaks my heart. I fail to put my Lord and Savior first all the time in my life.
I think that this happens because of the way that I, at times, see and present Jesus to others and to myself. Jesus is something that life is missing. There is a Jesus shaped hole in our lives and nothing else can fill it just right. Have you ever heard the gospel presented this way? I have and probably have even been the one sharing it like this. The problem is that this presents a view that Jesus is equal to the rest of the things in our lives. What would happen if in the process of accepting Jesus into our lives, we had to give up something else that was there before Jesus? It would make a new hole in our life that was not there before according to the way that we just presented it. So, in other words, Jesus is just one of many pieces that make one's life whole and complete.
The thing is this though, Jesus never presented the gospel this way. In Matthew 13:44, Jesus describes it like this: The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it; he hid it again, and then, in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought the field. As Jesus describes it, He is not something to add to our life, but rather he is something worth giving up all of our life for. The man sold everything he had to obtain the treasure. The treasure was worth more than what he currently had. This is how jesus calls us to see him. Nothing in our life can compete with hi9m because he is worth exponentially more. So, what is Jesus worth to you? Is he worth everything?
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