“He said to
them, ‘But, who do you say that I am?’”
- Matthew
16:15
Reputation is powerful. Sometimes, what
people say about us, what people perceive about us, speaks loud. Jesus had a very vast, robust reputation. His reputation both
drew people to Him and away from Him.
Even in the 21st century,
He’s complicated. Some have heard more that He is homophobic, rather than that
He is Healer, or that God is all love or all lightning bolts. And we sit here,
somewhere between comfortable and complicated, and Jesus asks us, “Who do you
say that I am?”
It’s funny, because we know. We know who
He is, because He tells us. He defines Himself perfectly, and yet we distort
it.
Jesus tells us who He is, and we still get it wrong.
Our sin and flesh and circumstances
deter us and deceive us and we arrive at a place where Jesus says, “Who do you
say that I am?” And we stumble and question and doubt. He meets us in that
place, asking us how we see Him right where we are, and its funny, because
after He asks us who He is, He reminds us who He is. All throughout Scripture,
we see that God is just, righteous, wrathful, good, the one who gives and
takes, the one who sees us; He is healer, redeemer, comforter, sustainer, and
Savior.
How graceful and merciful He is with us!
We constantly stray from truth, clinging to what we feel God to be rather than
who He has revealed Himself to be.
Friends, who do you say He is today?
Do
you say He is healer, redeemer, Savior?
Do you say He is good?
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