What is a woman?
That has become the iconic question of our day. And we are often so quick to judge those who refuse to answer such a basic question in a desperate effort to maintain their ideology.
The reality is clear – but the implications don’t fit with the agenda. So instead of acknowledging their error, they choose to ignore reality.
But, let’s not forget – we are no better.
All of us, at some point in our lives, have made the same mistake. We, too, have refused to acknowledge someone’s true identity.
How so?
C. S. Lewis, the brilliant British scholar and author of “Chronicles of Narnia,” explains with his characteristic wit:
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
This weekend, when many reflect on the greatest event in history – the resurrection of Jesus – ask yourself, “Who is Jesus to you?”
Most of us like His morals. We cite “Judeo-Christian principles” and try to live by the Golden Rule.
But if He truly did rise from the dead, then He is so much more than a wise sage – He is God, and we owe Him our full allegiance.
I hope that this weekend is a time for all of us to wrestle with the significance of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection as the only way to full reconciliation with God.
On behalf of the DFPC team, Happy Resurrection Weekend.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. ... "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.