The Pulse

It's coming up to Halloween and maybe you will be getting dressed up in a scary outfit and heading out trick-or-treating... but recently I was pretty impressed with LZ7, a Christian band who got to number 26 in the UK charts with 'This Little Light". Check it out http://www.lz7.co.uk/  They are encouraging us to not be scared but to stand up for what we believe in and to show other people how great God is in the way we speak and the things we do... what a challenge!

I wonder what you spend most of your day doing and thinking? Maybe you are in a rush in the morning to get to school then when you come home you watch a bit of t.v., play some sport or hang out with mates, play on your PS3 or whatever... All these things are great ways to spend time but I wonder whether this is all there is... or is there is more to life? Jesus claims to be the way, the truth and the life, therefore spending time getting to know Him will teach us how to truly live!

C.S. Lewis wrote:
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us,like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by an offer of a holiday at sea. We are far to easily pleased."

In a world where different religions are often lumped together and put on oneside, when exploring the Christianity, it is important to focus on who Jesus is.

In the book 'Mere Christianity' C.S. Lewis makes this statement:

"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 a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool 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."

I wonder who you think Jesus is...?