The Word Became Flesh

Me:  Prodigal, SLOW down,  I think you are driving too fast.

Prodigal:  Who’s pluckin’ this chicken, you or me?

Me:  Well you are but I was just trying to help.

Prodigal:  Maybe you can help with an encouraging word.

Me:  I can share words from C.S. Lewis

 

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 a 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.

 

Is Jesus the Son of God or something else?

How are you treating Jesus today?

 

And a leper came to Him, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying to Him, “If you are willing, You can make me clean”

(Mark 1:40)

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

 

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