In the course of life, everyone of us will be called upon to answer this question Jesus posed to His disciples: “Who do you say that I am?”
Jesus was moving around with his many disciples (by no means limited to the twelve apostles), and everywhere, they were mobbed by people. Some were looking for solutions to their problems; they showed up with numerous and diverse health and emotional challenges, seeking health and healing. Others went to see Him to hear Him speak about the Kingdom of God.
Life was good for the Jews; it was even better for the disciples who by association with Jesus, had become famous.
People who encountered Jesus left His presence with a sense of deja vu. They saw in Him, manifestations of the great times in Jewish history when God had used men to do great and mighty things. So… started the rumours, that Jesus was perhaps the reincarnated version of great prophets like Jeremiah and Elijah.
Jesus apparently never stopped to explain himself, nor did he try to stop their musings and surmises. But for the twelve apostles who were His closest associates, those to whom He would hand over his legacy and entrust the formation of His church, the story was different.
For them, wild conjectures, rumours, and whisperings were not enough. Each one of them who had lived with Him, eaten with Him, walked with Him, joked with Him, and heard Him as he expounded the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, had to have their own revelation of who He was, in order to be useful to Him. So, he asked them: “Who do you say that I am?” On that day, Peter, with the revelation of the Holy Spirit declared that Jesus was “the Christ, the son of the living God”.
Sometime later, Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus, beloved friends of Jesus, confronted with the question of Jesus’ identity, declared that he was “the Christ of God who is to come into the world.”
“Doubting Thomas”, confronted with the evidence of the risen Jesus, declared “My Lord and my God.”
And who do you say Jesus is: That question echoes through the millennia, and it is now your turn to answer it for yourself.
By God’s mercies, you have heard about Jesus; you have some degree of fellowship with others searching and with those who appear to be convinced of His divinity and Lordship. You are developing some relationship with Him, learning to entrust yourself to Him in faith. From everything you have read, heard, sang about, whom have you found Jesus Christ to be?
Who do YOU say that He is?
It is the most important question you will ever be required to answer, and in your answer lies your redemption, your deliverance, your supply, your sufficiency, your hope of glory, your eternal life…
Is He the Saviour and Lord of your life?
