jesus just a good person....
So i never seem to post anything meaningful about myself lately and always quotes from other people. And don't let me fool you this is going to be the same thing.
"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 the 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
So I love this quote. This gives you three choices. Jesus is God, He deliberately lied to us, or he was crazy. There is no lukewarm. I love it.
I love it because it means a theoretically stress free life for me. Not an easy life, but when the hard stuff comes I don't have to fret about it. Jesus is Lord, he has freed me from this world, so I don't need to indulge in the stress that it brings.
No if only I could not be a hypocrite and actually live this way. Your mood affects the people around you, my goal for right now. Make a difference. How? By being in a good mood. Living life for the moment, not anticipating the weekend.
Once again though... all work on that, it sure doesn't come naturally.
"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 the 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
So I love this quote. This gives you three choices. Jesus is God, He deliberately lied to us, or he was crazy. There is no lukewarm. I love it.
I love it because it means a theoretically stress free life for me. Not an easy life, but when the hard stuff comes I don't have to fret about it. Jesus is Lord, he has freed me from this world, so I don't need to indulge in the stress that it brings.
No if only I could not be a hypocrite and actually live this way. Your mood affects the people around you, my goal for right now. Make a difference. How? By being in a good mood. Living life for the moment, not anticipating the weekend.
Once again though... all work on that, it sure doesn't come naturally.