Are You For Real?

Are you for real?

Have you ever have someone ask you that question? Jesus, in essence, was asked that question over and over while He was here on this earth. “Are you really who you say you are?” He was asked by so many.

There was a group of people who didn’t ask Him that question. They were the ones who had heard of His miracles, His works, the words of faith He spoke and were hungry for what He had. The crowds of people gathered around Him to hear what He had to say. They gathered because they were sick; they were tired; they were weary; they were broke; they had needs. And He seemed to have the answers.

They didn’t understand what we understand today of His provision. They just knew He was different. He had answers and solutions for life’s problems that they had been facing for days or years. It didn’t matter how long their problems had existed. He was the answer. The “common” people knew that.

But do you know who missed the time of His visitation----the church people of that day—the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Scribes and those who “knew” the ways of God. My greatest desire is that I don’t get caught up in what I know about Him and miss Him.

Many times our Lord is standing quietly beside us, waiting for a time of fellowship and we are too busy doing the work of the Lord to hear Him. I know in my heart that the greatest thing I can do today is be intimate with Jesus by the power of His Holy Spirit. He longs for union and communion with us. Our works don’t impress Him but our desire for Him catches His attention.

There were another two groups of people that didn’t miss His time of visitation—the praying Anna’s and the older generation of Simeon’s who were waiting for Messiah. They were still enough before the Lord to hear His voice in the slightest whisper. “It is I. Bid me come to you.”

When Pilate asked Jesus what was truth, he didn’t understand that Truth Himself was standing in His midst, the One Who had said: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”

Let’s make a decision today that we will not be like Pilate or the Scribes or the Pharisees or the Sadducees, but that we will be like Anna, like Simeon, like those who were hungry for a word from Him, a touch from Him because they KNEW He had their answers.

Let’s make that quality decision to make time for Him in our day, every day, time to sit at His feet as Mary did and have intimate communion. And remember that a quality decision is one from which there is no turning back and no changing one’s mind.

I have made that decision. How about you?