His Name is Jesus (Devotional)

"And Jesus cried out and said, 'Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me." (John 12:44-45)

C.S. Lewis once suggested that we can only conclude one of three things with regard to Jesus. He was a fruitcake (My words not his), a nut, a crazy, who thought He was someone that he wasn't; he was a liar that intentionally sought to deceive people; or He was actually God. There is no room for a nice guy, a good man, some great moralist. He claimed to be God. "He who sees me has seen Him who sent me."

In the opening words of the Gospel, John boldly declares, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And then he writes, "And the Word was made flesh and dwellt among us." Jesus was the only 200%er. He was 100% God, and He was 100% man. He was as much God as though He never became man, and He was as much man as though He never was God.

The other night I had an interesting dream. I was standing in a group looking at a car for sale. The group were people I had never met. And they got into a conversation about whether someone could know God or not. I spoke up and said, "I know God." They all then looked at me in amazement, until someone voiced what all were thinking, "If you know God, what is His name?" "That's easy," I said. Someone said, "Is his name Buddha?" Another asked, "Is His name Mohammed?" And there were others. I said, "His name is Jesus."

And the Word of God says, "It is the name above every other name. It is the name at which one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus Christ is Lord."