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View all responsesA man named Thomas had some close friends who told Him they had seen someone who had been executed and entombed, who is now alive from the dead. Of course, Thomas didn’t believe them. He quite reasonably told them that he wouldn’t believe something that outrageous unless He himself encountered the dead man living.
A few days later when Thomas met the resurrected Christ, he called Jesus “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28) Thomas was a changed man. (2 Corinthians 5:17) He radically followed and obeyed his Lord for the rest of his life traveling to tell people about the God-man and training people to daily listen to and obey the risen Jesus. There are ancient indigenous Christian groups in India who trace their origin back 2,000 years to Thomas.
An encounter with the risen Jesus will drastically change your point of view about Christ. You will no longer think of Jesus as a famous historical personality, or as a good moral teacher, or as a religious leader, or as the lead character in “The Chosen,” or as a mythical figure, or as whatever you formerly thought Him to be.
A genuine encounter with the living Jesus will cause you to call Him “My Lord and my God.” Christ will begin show Himself to you more and more. As you daily surrender to His will and keep His commandments (John 14:15) Jesus will begin to build your life on the inner rock of direct personal revelation. (Matthew 16:18)
Today all true followers of Jesus have Him living inside of them as their Lord and their God. Christ living in them (Colossians 1:27) doesn’t just help them to cope with life. Jesus living within true Christians fills them with ongoing hope to see and experience God’s glory here on earth as it is in Heaven. (Matthew 6:10)
The true children of God are led by Jesus living inside of them as God the Holy Spirit. (Romans 8:14) They are led by the Spirit, not by the desires, feelings, and opinions of their flesh. (Galatians 5:19-21)
Jesus doesn’t what the Spirit to be quenched when Christians gather in His name. (1 Thessalonians 5:19) He wants people to be free (John 8:32) to follow Him. (Matthew 4:19) As each person present in a Christian congregation listens to Jesus (John 10:27) and shares and obeys what the risen Jesus is saying to him or her, the glory of God demonstrates Christ’s presence and power. (1 Corinthians 2:4-5)
Why not gather with some Christ-followers, listen directly to Jesus together, and let people share what Jesus tells them? You will be amazed at how Christ (the Lord and God) will demonstrate His presence among you. Jesus will take you beyond doubt to certainty. (2 Timothy 1:12)
Don’t just work for a living. Live to continually experience Jesus the God-man working in and through you. (Philippians 2:13)
