To live requires making choices. Every day we
must choose what to wear, where to go, what to say, what to do, how to act and
whom to trust. The biggest choice we face each day is in our relationship with
God. Will we trust Him and follow His ways, or only our own?
During their lives, both Stephen Hawking and
Clive Staples Lewis had the same choice we all have: Will I believe in God or
deny He exists? Both Hawking and Lewis were born into Christian homes, and both
rejected the notion of God in their youth. Hawking maintained his lifelong
rejection of God, but Lewis did not.
Reading the Bible, Lewis realized Jesus could
have been only one of three things: A Liar, a Lunatic, or the Lord. He said, “You must make
your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or
something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon. Or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.”
Lewis chose to believe Jesus was Lord. A blessing we all have
from God is His personal encouragement to trust, given us by the Holy Spirit.
Through Word and Sacrament, the Holy Spirit urges us to avoid rejecting Jesus
and go His way through life choosing Him.
May we say as Peter boldly did when asked by Jesus what he
believed, “You are the Christ, the son
of the living God.” (Matthew 16:16)
Lord, I want to believe.
Help when I am not sure.
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