Will you miss Him?

Vince Lombardi, the late Hall of fame coach of the Green Bay Packers, once watched his team suffer a humiliating defeat. They lost to a team that they were highly favored against. The next day, as practice started Lombardi stood before the team holding a football. Calmly he held it out and said, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” After the humiliating defeat Couch Lombardi figured that it was time to call his team back to the basics.

There are times when each one of us needs to go back to the basics. It happens at our jobs, at school, in our relationships, really in all aspects of our life at one time or another. It even happens in our personal relationship with Christ. Jesus at one point in the gospels is bringing His disciples back to the basics. After teaching His disciples for nearly three years, Jesus paused to ask them a very basic question, “Who do you say that I am?” Then He waited for them to respond. He waited for them to give an answer. Today I think Jesus looks to you and I to answer that same question. So hear Him today as He asks you, "Who do you say that I am?”

With hindsight it's a bit easier for us to formulate the correct answer to that question. but if we were alive in the 1st century would we have "missed" Him?

They were looking for a Lion, He came as a Lamb, and they missed Him.

They were looking for a Warrior, He came as a Peace maker, and they missed Him.

They were looking for a King, He came as a Servant, and they missed Him.

They were looking for Liberation from Rome, He submitted to the Roman cross, and they missed Him.

They were looking for a fit to their mold, He was the mold maker, and they missed Him.

What are you looking for? A Lion? A Warrior? A King? A Liberator? What is it exactly that you are looking for? What do you expect of Him?

They were looking for their temporal needs to be met, He came to meet their eternal need, and they missed Him.

He came as a Lamb to be sacrificed for your sin. Will you miss Him?

He came to make peace between God and man. Will you miss Him?

He came to model servant hood for all mankind. Will you miss Him?

He came that we might have true Liberty. Will you miss Him?

He came to give you eternal life. Will you miss Him?

When we submit to the lamb we will meet the Lion.
Join with the Peacemaker and we will meet the Warrior.
Work with the Servant and we will meet the King.
Walk with the Submitted and we will meet the Liberator.
Concern ourselves with the Eternal and we will have the temporal.

If Jesus is not fitting into the mold you have then maybe it's time to come to the "Mold Maker" and get a new one. Submit to His plan for your life and you will find your eternal needs met! And when those needs are met, all the other things you have need of will be taken care of as well.