It is the ultimate question of life - who is Jesus Christ? Was he just a good man whose example we can follow today? Was he a teacher whose insights and principles can help us to greater success? Was he a visionary who had found the way to tap into his full human potential? Was he the evil fraud his enemies claimed? Or was he, perhaps, the person that John knew him to be - the Incarnate God.
In John 7:25-36 the people of Jerusalem were debated this issue. Jesus taught in the streets and stories of his miracles spread throughout the land. But the opposition of the religious leaders was also known. Who was right? Jesus would spend much time in the book of John asserting that he was the Christ, the Son of God and the Word made flesh.
Standing before the crowd, Jesus made this assertion (John 7:28-29):
“You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him; I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
He was the one sent from God to reveal God to us, to provide reconciliation for us and to bring spiritual rebirth to us.
The ultimate question that any of us can ask is who Jesus is. If he is who he claims to be, who John presented him to be, then there are only two appropriate responses to him. First, we must each repent of our sins and place our faith in him - to acknowledge his right of Lordship over our lives. Second, we must devote our lives to proclaiming the truth of the Son of God in this world.
Who is Jesus? That is the question each of us must answer and eternity hangs in the balance.
"You are the Christ, the son of the living God. You are my life, and hope and joy, my path to God and my strength for the day. By you I am justified and by you I have life. Glory to your Father's name."
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