Money for the Brain

Hey everyone!! Well here is my little anecdote for the day. I spend my Wednesday evenings at a youth group called Blaze, which I must admit is nothing like I expected it to be. However, this Wednesday Greg (the main leader of Blaze this year) spoke about taking God seriously. As I listened to him I couldn't help but realize that what he had to say held a certain truth and value. Some of you may have heard this analogy already but it is one he used and I like it. "So Jesus is either a liar, lunatic, or Lord. But if Jesus is a liar he is first of all the best liar in all the world and second of all very stupid. He managed to convince thousands of people that he was telling the truth and is still believed 2000 years later. Now he is incredibly stupid because he died for a cause that he knew was a lie. So if he wasn't lying and was just crazy a lot of the stuff he spoke about could be passed off as "whatever that man was just crazy." But most religions will attest to the fact that Jesus was a great teacher. If a man were crazy then he would not be able to pass as a great teacher. So if he is not lying and was not crazy then he must be Lord." Greg also added to this that if Jesus was Lord then everything he said was truth and if everything he said was truth then that makes him want to aspire to be like Christ. And to be honest if you know that Jesus is Lord and have read any of the Gospels how can you not want to be a better person. Greg finished by saying if you go home tonight and you don't think about this at all you are only harming yourself but if you go home and you think about it or read the Gospels it will totally ruin your life as you know it. I have to agree with Greg as I just finished reading John and there was so much in there that made me look at myself. I think I could honestly say it almost disgusts me at how unchrist like I am. Christians now a days they think well being a Christian (which means little Christ) is easy and if you just do a little of what Jesus did you're ok. Now that is fine I think myself that if you are at all like Jesus you are doing better than most of the worlds population but if you think that and you stop at helping a few people here or there saying "I don't have to do more" you are only lying to yourself and I would almost go as far to say that you do not truly believe in what Jesus teaches. If you don't want to go further and stay at a certain point well can you honestly say your a Christian or have you just gotten good at fakin it. Christianity should be always on going. You should never stop and say oh I'm doing enough because until you die for every single person on earth and every single person who is going to be on earth you can not be like Christ. God will accept you for who you are as long as you truly believe that Jesus is Lord and he died for us but well I can not accept me. And I tell you the truth if you honestly believe that Jesus is Lord and read the Gospels well then I doubt you will be able to accept yourself either. This one is a tough one. I will tell you I myself have problems with going foward but the best way is to start in God's word.