Who Was Jesus Christ?

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Me:  Prodigal, what are you doing all by yourself in this barren rocky place?

 

Prodigal:  Well, I was deep in thought with all that we have been talking about lately.

 

Me:  Anything specific that you have been thinking of?

 

Prodigal:  Just who Jesus was?

 

There is a quote from Napoleon who expressed beautiful as someone who has lead people.  Napoleon expressed these thoughts while he was exiled on the rock of St. Helena.  He called Count Montholon to his side and asked him, “Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?”  The count declined to respond.  Napoleon answered:

 

Well then, I will tell you.  Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend?  Upon force.  Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him…..I think I understand something of human nature; and I tell you, all these were men, and I am a man; none else is like Him; Jesus Christ was more than man….I have inspired multitudes with such an enthusiastic devotion that they would have died for me….but to do this it was necessary that I should be visible present with the electric influence of my looks, my words, of my voice.  When I saw men and spoke to them, I lighted up the flame of self-devotion in their hearts…Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.  Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother.  He asks for the human heart;  He will have it entirely to Himself.  He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted.  Wonderful!  In defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ.  All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable, supernatural love toward Him.  This phenomenon is unaccountable; it is altogether beyond the scope of man’s creative powers.  Time, the great destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range.  This is it, which strikes me most; I have often thought of it.  This it is which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

This comes from a ruler of men, nations and leaders.  This is the words of a man who has known power and devotion.  Christ is still real.  He is still seeking my heart.  He is still seeking your heart.  Does he have it?

 

Isaiah 30:21

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

 

 

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