What About Me (03-25-07)

I have seen many of you get stuck with the various forms of the question. What I had hoped to distill down to you through the heat of my trial is that this question is a fool’s question. Christ is a contemporary to all of us. The dove of the Holy Spirit descended upon Him at His baptism and remains with Him. He is not dead, been resurrected into life and is as present with us as He was with the apostles. Zacharias, John the Baptist’s father, heard from God that in his old age He and His wife would bare a son. He knew of Abraham and Sarah but He did not believe the same God relevant to himself and his identical circumstance. Each man has a private contract with his creator. The terms and conditions of mine are not your knowledge. What we do have in common is the party we’ve contracted with is the righteous, covenant keeping, God. In this each of us can benefit from our revelations of this party to each other. I do not choose to be like Zacharias. I choose to see Christ my contemporary actively participating in our private contract. I view Him as the changeless party whose covenants and promises are not antiquated but relevant and present as terms and conditions of our private contract. Zacharias’ “what about me” mistake left him muted, a man without a voice. If you are still focused on the “me” of that question your voice is muted to any relevance. Christ created a new world, new men, in His new creation. It is a world of “What about Christ.” John the Baptist new this better than his father and his voice was never muted. It was always relevant. Sure the Dorean experience is difficult but our voice is not muted and will always remain relevant. Truth guided by the Holy Spirit is and always will remain relevant. “What about me” idiots are swallowed up by the me view of their circumstance. Christ is always above them, in control of them, and strengthening you to plow through them. John knew his destiny as one calling out in the wilderness and we can be just as assured in our wilderness that the Christ we profess is the Messiah, savior, contemporary, present, and powerful. With this truth there is never a need to shrink back. Amen!