Us, Jesus, and Today's World
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” ~ Heb.13:8
For many, it’s difficult to associate Jesus Christ with this present, modern, nuclear, computerized, space age. But this difficulty fades once we heed Paul’s teaching, where he records, “Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.” It’s not Christ’s sandals, but His sayings we are to walk in; it is not acquiring His wardrobe, but applying His Word that distinguishes us as belonging to Him.
When we speak of the Changeless Christ, we’re referring to His principles, not to His physical person. For example, there is a great difference between His pre- and post-Resurrection body. Walking in His steps (1Pet.2:21 cp. 1 Jn.2:6) simply means, in the same spirit. Paul, speaking of young Titus wrote, “Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?
Rather than live by the popular saying, “What would Jesus do?” I’d rather go by “What did Jesus say!” As to the first, many use their own imagery.
I close with a quote from C.S. Lewis concerning saints who are overwrought in this nuclear age. “The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
by an Aged Saint
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