There is no other stream...

Life's good here in Vina. The weather is awesome, and I went surfing yesterday at Renaca. Getting there on the Micro was half the fun - packed in there with 50 people and a surf board haha...I love it.

Today, after waking up late for class this morning, running to the metro, then speed-walking to my building, to show up and there be no class...I'm here back at the house with some coffee, writing. Just laugh huh...

I was reading something while on the metro back to the house that started some thoughts. CS Lewis is explaining to some degree, Hell's invention of the "Historical Jesus," and in his writing he says this, which started the thought:

"Instead of the Creator adored by its creature, you soon have merely a leader acclaimed by a partisan, and finally a distinguished character approved by a judicious historian."

What I hear the brilliant theologian saying here is, what have you done to Jesus? Jesus is not just history or a great moral teacher. He is your creator. For those who have a relationship with our Savior, my question is: Do you worship Christ as the Creator? - you are His creation. And for those who do not have a relationship with your Savior, my question is: Do you believe in the truth? That Jesus is your Creator and you are His creation?

There is no following Jesus as a moral teacher or as a cool historical figure...He is the Christ. The root of this is whether you believe it to be true. The Bible gives an account of facts. Luke, for example, was a great historian and physician, who was paid by a very rich man to go, learn, seek, interview, and discover the truth about Jesus Christ. He did just that and wrote about it, in two books of the Bible...it is truth. Do you believe it or not? (And I'll leave the rest, again, to Clive) "...once this question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful if may be: if it is true, every honest man will want to belive it, even if it gives him no help at all."

So you see, it's not about you really. It is however about Him. It doesn't matter what you gain or loose...do you believe the truth or not?

"There is no other stream..."

Love you Jess.