The Way of Life or the Way of Wishy Washy

What is keeping you from making a decision about Jesus? Eventually, we all must choose: is he a lunatic, a liar or Lord?

God wants us to be his children. He wants us to have a way to have a parent/child relationship with him, and yet God, who is perfect (in the absolute sense of the word) requires that those he adopts as his own children are perfect as well. We all know we can't be perfect on our own. But Jesus, as God's own perfect son, provided the way. For Jesus himself said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me." (John 14:6) He took the punishment for our sins by dying on a cross. When we claim Jesus as our Lord, his death cleanses us of all our sin and his resurrection gives promise to our eternal home.

If you haven't decided for Jesus, why are you waiting? Herod Agrippa had been versed in the teaching of Biblical prophets and had been aware of the teachings of Jesus for decades and was finally appealed to by the Apostle Paul, as we read in Acts 26, to believe. But Herod did like so many still do today, he took the way of wishy-washy. He wouldn't deny the veracity of the prophecies, but he wouldn't accept the truth either. He said to Paul, "Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?" How typical of how our generation, our leaders, deal with issues that require decisiveness. We won't say yes and we won't say no, and often we fool ourselves into thinking that are non-answer is a reasonable choice.

In truth, this isn't the first time you have been confronted with the gospel either. You have lived an entire life in which God has revealed himself time and again, just like it was with King Agrippa. Will you be wishy-washy? Or will you flat out rejct and respond like Festus, "You are out of your mind Paul!... Your great learning is driving you insane!" Or will you acknowledge the creator of the universe, the creator of you? Will you be thankful for the gift he has offered through Jesus? Will you accept it? I pray that you will.