We Need Jesus

I feel like people are just going from one fad to the other. I'm sure this is no different that in the past, but experiencing it first hand makes me really sad.

Yesterday it was politics; today it's Hokie football.

I look around me and all I see are people looking for something substantial to cling to that gives them a sense of purpose and hope. That's why I say people need Jesus. I mean there are many other BIG reasons such as He is the only way to life and salvation, but this purpose it's because following Him and having faith in Him is the only thing in this life and beyond that is hope - the only thing that is constant, never-changing, and will always be there and will never fade or go out of style.

Of course, Jesus is never in style. We try to make Him "relevant". We're not relevant to the Gospel, the Gospel is relevant to us, because WE are the sinners who need grace and forgiveness and a SAVIOR. This Gospel of Jesus Christ is not about us, it's about God and His Kingdom.

I am convicting myself as I say this because I realize that I, too, get caught up in the fads that the world tells me I should get all excited about. But I'm trying not to. I need prayer for that - for God to create in me a clean heart (Psalm 51) so that I will be able to love Him with all that I am.

But love is a sacrifice. It doesn't provide the fluffy happy things that the fleeting things of this world do - all those things we spend our lives chasing after but never truly fulfill us. Running full speed ahead after Jesus will be the only thing that satisfies our souls. We are called to suffer for Christ's sake, but "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:7).

"While the outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day." (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Those are just my thoughts for the day. So much stock is put into politics and football, but so easily we lose the passion we once had for Christ. I want that fire. I need a Savior to rescue me from my sin. And God gave me Jesus. Why wouldn't I want to live for Him?