Who Was This Man?

As I was driving earlier in the week, a thought came to my mind. Historically and factually, nearly every Muslim, Jew, and Christian will agree that 2,000 years ago there walked a man on the earth who fundamentally changed history. Factually and historically, nearly everyone would agree that a man named Jesus Christ drew vast followers and even attracted the attention of the Roman Empire.

Some called him a prophet, some called him a great and wise man, and others called him the Son of God.

It's not whether Christ is real or not, historically and factually, nearly everyone would agree that he was real. The REAL question is: Who was this man? Was he indeed who he claimed to be...the Son of God?

If he was the Son of God, and I emphatically proclaim that he was LITERALLY the Son of God, then why would we persist in our stubborn ways? If we agree that he was real and if we believe that he was the Son of God, then what he taught was also real. Why do we continue to justify things in our lives that draw us away from Him if we believe that he was real?

This morning I read 2 Nephi 28:14 and it causes me to reflect on my own life as Nephi describes our day: "They wear stiff necks and high heads; yea, and because of PRIDE and wickedness, and abominations, and whoredoms, they have all gone astray save it be a FEW, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in MANY instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men."

If we're willing to look internally, repent, and start looking to Christ, that's when the power of Christ can start to really take hold in our life. Then it can begin to grow within us as described in Alma 32. That's when hope will begin to replace doubt and depression, that's when light will begin to replace darkness, that's when we can begin to really develop Charity and learn to love as Christ loves.