The most important question in the world

"Why don't you bend your knee to Jesus Christ and follow Him?"

The question of who Jesus is and how we are going to respond to Him is the greatest question we can ever ponder in this life.

"Jesus said that He was God and that He understood spiritual matters. He said the choice you make about Him will determine where you spend eternity. It's one thing for a person to claim such a thing, it's another thing for someone to back it up. Look at Jesus. He gave the greatest moral teaching the world has ever seen. He worked miracles. He healed people. He raised people from the dead. When people practice His principles, they transform society for good. In fact, Jesus even predicted His own death, and in fact, died and self-consciously raised Himself from the dead. There's a guy who has some credibility.

What about Buddha? He's still in the grave. What about Mohammed? He didn't work any miracles. What about Krishna? It is not even clear that he even existed. But Jesus did and He changed the world. It seems to me if you are going to put your bets on some spiritual option, it is best to go with Somebody and listen to Somebody who has credibility. That is Jesus Christ." (Read the full article here)

Jesus Christ isn't just a nice biblical character for story-telling purposes. Thinking about Him is not an option. Ignoring Him and putting Him off is a conscious decision with dire consequences.

There is one thing you must do before you die, and it's not to take care of your children, earn a million dollars, visit the Eiffel Tower, find a cure for all cancers or win a Nobel prize. You have to know Jesus and bend your knee, your heart, your soul and your mind to Him. Everything else is secondary.

Too busy to think about God? Consider this article.

Cultivating Happiness

I remember reading something like this several years ago...

"Happiness is the goal of each and every man... even of those who hang themselves." (author's paraphrase)

How true.

This article explores "the idea that true happiness isn't the same as immediate happiness" and that true happiness is found in God.

A somewhat unrelated comment: I've been very blessed by the articles in A Slice of Infinity (RZIM) these past few days. I find that reading a short article for about 2 minutes in the middle of the day really helps turn my thoughts Godward, where they should be, and creates a hunger within me to spend more time contemplating God's timeless truths in the Scriptures.