Who Do YOU Say I Am?

Luke 9:19-20  “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other ancient prophets risen from the dead.”

Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?”

Peter replied, “You are the Messiah sent from God!”

What would you say if you were asked, “What does 2+2 equal?” The answer that has been accepted for eons is 4. 2+2=4. It’s pretty simple, really. If you hold two objects in your hands and add two more, they equal four. This is not advanced mathematics.

However, there are people now that are questioning this. They say that 2+2 can equal five, or 6, or whatever you feel it is.

One teacher asked a student to give their answer to a math question, and they provided the incorrect answer.

Instead of correcting the answer, he asked the student how she arrived at that answer and learned she had a “creative, brilliant process” for finding the solution, but got derailed by a small computation mistake.

“There’s no room for creativity when there is a fixation on the answer,” he said.

The problem is that only one answer is correct. You can be as creative as you want, but you are still wrong.

When Jesus asked the disciples, “But who do you say I am,” he wasn’t looking for creativity. Jesus boiled it all down to one question, and only one correct answer: You are the Messiah sent from God!

That’s it! Jesus didn’t ask for other opinions or viewpoints, Peter had the right answer.

The question is asked of us each day, too. Who do you say Jesus is? If your answer is anything other than you are the Messiah sent from God, you have trouble. This isn’t a question that we can afford to miss on life’s test.

Today’s Readings: Ezra 4; Psalm 113,127; Luke 9

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