I remember watching the comedy TV show “Gillians’s Island” years ago. It was about a small charter boat that had 5 passengers and the captain of the boat and his first mate. They go out on a three hour tour from a tropic port and get caught in a storm and end up stranded on a deserted island. I saw something funny someone put online about the show. “In the TV show Gillians’s Island, the boat used was a 1964 Wheeler with a cruising speed of 12 knots…which means that they couldn’t have traveled more that 41.5 miles. I’m starting to doubt if the show was even real!” It was a TV comedy show, but there were actually people who believed that these folks were out there somewhere and needed to be rescued! Just for the record, the outdoor scenes were filmed on a studio’s back lot down in LA. They certainly had no intention of deceiving people that there were real castaways stranded week after week on a deserted island. I was thinking about that…how it was all made up for people to enjoy…and to make money! Sometimes people look at this Jesus of the Bible and seem to feel like they are being deceived as to who he really is. That the account of his life, death and resurrection was a comforting and maybe even entertaining idea, but that who he is said to be and what he is reported to have done, is just something nice, diverting and uplifting but he certainly wasn’t God who became flesh and lived among us. But Jesus himself said that he was the way, the truth and the life. And that no one could come to the Father except through him. So we need to make a decision. He is either a person who was not in touch with reality, a madman even. Or, he was a liar, deliberately living out a falsehood. Or the third option…that he was who he said he was. That he was God who came in the flesh to die for our sins that we might be forgiven and that there is no other way to reach God and have an eternal, forgiven relationship with him. We can never say he was only a wise man or a good teacher. Those are not options for us as we see what he said about himself and what the Bible records he did. So each person has the freedom to choose. But the Bible says that everything about our future rests on what we decide to believe. Me…well, I’m going for King of Kings and Lord of Lords…that this Jesus died for me so that I can now be forgiven and that he is with me in this life and then I will see him face to face when this life journey is over and I am with him in heaven. You will make any choice you want, but remember that everything depends on what you decide. Choose wisely. Here’s our Bible verse for today…
John 14:6 NLT Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Remember I’m praying for you!
With love, PJ
John 14:6 NLT Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Remember I’m praying for you!
With love, PJ