Shout

Please read Luke 9:18-20



It is so fascinating to me that Jesus is unwilling to settle with the
disciples consensus on what the public was saying about who He is.
The answer to that question really is more of a lead into a bigger
question. Our Jesus is more intimately concerned with what is going
on with me...with us....than that. He wants to know what our personal
confession will be. Those four words are so pointed. So personal. I
can almost feel His eye contact. "BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?" Who do you,
Kari, say that I am?...
Who do you ______, say that I am? A prophet raised from the dead or
the God who created EVERYTHING, including you and willingly died for
your sins, because of my great Love for you?

The other part of the passage that I can't stop thinking about is that
little word 'say'. "Who do you say that I am?". I know that I often
say that Jesus is my Father, my Friend, the Lover of My Soul, the One
who holds all things together. That's the declaration that my mouth
makes, but is it what my life says? Am I allowing Him to change the
way I live or think or act? Is my life characterized by the things
that characterized Christ's life? Am I a woman who: Cares about the
needs of the poor. Is patient with others. Do I show compassion? Am
I spending myself storing up treasures in heaven, rather than on
earth? Am I letting the peace of Christ rule in my heart? Really, am
I living like I've been MARKED BY MAJESTY?

I don't want my life to 'say' that Jesus is God's Messiah......I want
it to "SHOUT" it!!!!

Kari Levang