Someone Save Me

Every one needs the Saviour. No, not a saviour, but the Saviour.

There are people who are not ready to come before dear Jesus: atheists, agnostics, so-called freethinkers, hedonists and believers of the many different religions. Does denying God's existence mean He really doesn't exist? How does one vindicate the definition of who God really is, so much so as to confidently deny that He is not found in any religion, or more specifically, our Christian faith? Being subjective and affective by our physiological and spiritual construct, how is it possible for one who freely thinks, but yet is servant to the world?

I was looking at the angel's proclamation of the good news in Luke 2. Why did God send him to say that there is a Saviour, and that his coming was good? The lives we live on earth are marred with many sinful, unpleasant and violent people, things and events. To come to the Saviour on our knees is to be saved from these things, how can this be not wonderful?

I guess sinful, unpleasant and violent happenings make us think of places and people stricken with religious extremism and sensational cases of rape, theft, murder and whatnots. Are we, the average Joes and plain Janes, pretty much free and happy in this world? Some people go into endless relationships callously, only to come out hurt and plunge into another one, with the intention to satisfy emotional and physical desires. Some see the need to use vulgar, abusive language and seek pleasure in deriding others so as to feel part of a group. Others see achievements and accolades as the pride of their survival in tough competition. Others make frenzied trips to places of worship, while being worried constantly whether he would win the lottery bet he made last Saturday. I hope I made my point here: the world is not a happy place. And in our myopic view, to try to satisfy a void for that is which pure and good, we use more things of the world in an attempt to fill it up. No matter how we twist and turn reasons and motives around, using the things and people of the world cannot fill our void because of the sinful nature of the world. It's like eating a candy when you're terribly famished each time after a good swim or a long day of work: the hunger doesn't go away. You eat more candies but it doesn't help substantially and makes your health worse instead.

But dear Jesus, being high in heaven, came down to earth for the sole purpose to die for every one's sins. God's utter holiness requires us to be clean and unblemished, which is why Christ's crucifixion on our behalf is needed to make us clean. He has atoned our sins on our behalf. For that, we become renewed in mind and in spirit, that we can see beyond the current world we live in, to look to eternity in heaven above. We know where we go after death, and this knowledge that is kept in the heart truly shows at the deathbed. Without Jesus and therefore the surety to go to heaven, can one die truly in peace? Can he put his mind off his family, the fate of his assets and leave? Can he be so assured as to know where he will go after death?

I'm reminded of Luo Wen's example. Luo Wen was a Hong Kong movie star, a men of great accomplishments and accolades. Yet when on his deathbed, he asked, "When I die, where will I go?" The people around him then couldn't tell him. We may brazenly and callously exclaim carpe diem, or evade the question, but death comes to all. When we are at our last breaths, can we boldly, assuredly ask Lord Jesus to wait for us at heaven's gates?