Does the World need a Saviour?
Here in New Zealand, we’re pretty self-sufficient, right?
Independent? Free?
Got it all sorted?
My home is at my left hand, and here at my right hand is Jesus Christ.
He’s stretching out his arms on a cross, saying: ‘Here, I’ll help you.’
He’s offering to die, and that’s a pretty serious thing.
But what’s it mean? What’s it all about?
Why would someone have to die to save us?
On the left hand, ‘She’ll be right.’ On the right hand, ‘I’ll die to save you.’
At this cross-road, a man is standing in front of us, offering to take our bullets:
The bullets that have shot us; the bullets we have used to shoot others.
The bullets being pointed at us now; the bullets we are, right now, tempted to use.
He is standing here, arms stretched out, saying, ‘I’ll carry it:
‘Just put the gun down.’
The offer of Jesus Christ is really very simple, at the end of the day:
‘I’ll take your bullets, but it’s time to stop shooting.’
‘I’ll carry your wrongs, but it’s time to start doing what is right.’
‘I’ll sort out the past, but let me change your future.’
‘God will forgive, and you also can forgive.’
The offer is here, right here, right now:
To accept is as simple as a few breathed words, ‘I’m sorry!’
To begin to change is to say, ‘Help me to be better!’
Jesus is giving us the choice.
Here in New Zealand, we’re pretty self-sufficient, right?
Independent? Free?
Got it all sorted?
You decide.
