YOU see them everywhere. Four little initials stitched into bracelets, etched into jewelry or displayed in car windows, make us stop and think... What Would Jesus Do? If Jesus were in our situation. ..what would He do? Would He bend to peer pressure? Would He fudge the truth? Would He spend money on that item, date that person, wear those clothes?
Many people will look at those initials and say, "So what?" They will not care what Jesus would do, simply because they don't know who Jesus is.
Jesus Christ was more than a wise, moral man, or a good example for us to follow. C.S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity, "I'm trying here to prevent anyone from 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 the level with a man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice."
JESUS CLAIMED TO BE:
...the very Son of the God of the universe
Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. Matthew 1O:32
...the same as God
"I and the Father are one.John 10:30
...the only way to get to God
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14.6
WDJD? (What Did Jesus Do?)
The reason we are separated from God is be cause of our sin, our rebellion which turns us away from Him. We were born with that attitude but we also choose it every day. "Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear" (Isaiah 59:2).
Sin is a crime against a holy God, and He is hurt deeply when we reject Him. This crime deserves a punishment, and, like it or not, that punishment is spiritual death, an eternity spent apart from God and His goodness...forever.
But God has sent someone to reconcile us.Some- one who has paid this penalty of death. Someone who has died...yet has risen again to new life. This someone is Jesus Christ. "For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!" (Romans 5:10).
WDWD? (What Do WE Do?)
So...what do we do with Jesus' claims? If we dismiss them, then why wear the bracelet of a lunatic? If we accept them as true.. what exactly does that mean?
In many Scripture verses Jesus says that to become one with Him, you must believe in Him. Not just believe Him, but believe in Him. That means you put your trust in Him as you would put your weight on a bridge that crosses a raging river. Acknowledg ing the bridge is one thing, walking across it is some thing else. But that's exactly what Jesus asks of us.
Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5:24).
Have you accepted the forgiveness and new life that Jesus offers? The book of John is the most descriptive account of Jesus' life and ministry found in the Bible. Why not read through it carefully to see if you can discover God's Son in its pages? One thing He will do, is show Himself to all who genuinely seek Him.