Who is Jesus...My Savior!

Who is Jesus to you?

Is he your friend, your healer, your savior, your guide, your redeemer, your King?

He should be all these things and more!

Jesus is so many things to me, but over the next few days I want to share a few of them with you. First of all, he is my Savior! I think that we use this word so much that we don't always think about the important meaning behind the word. He not only died to save me from hell, but he saves me daily! He saves me from selfishness, from evil, from so many things that I don't even realize---he is physically and spiritually my Savior.

I love the story of the woman at the well...she meets Jesus, runs in to town to tell the others, the Samaritans listen to her and then come out to meet him for themselves. Now the Bible tells us that they believed the woman, but they wanted to talk to him as well. And after talking to Jesus, they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." (John 4:42) So I ask myself, do I believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world because of what I have heard others say or because I have spoken and listened to him myself? We can't always depend on the word of others, we have to go to Jesus ourselves. Imagine their excitement, they could have said so many things about him, but after being with him, they use the words 'the Savior of the world'---it doesn't get any greater than that!

Then I think about Zacchaeus in Luke 19. He was not a man of God, but he sure wanted to see who this Jesus was and he would go to any length in order to catch a view of him. Zacchaeus didn't just stand around hoping to see Jesus, he did something about it---he meant that he was going to see him no matter what he had to do. And not only did Zacchaeus get to see Jesus, but Jesus saw him---more importantly, Jesus saw his heart and knew that, although Zacchaeus was a sinner, he had a sincere heart. From this story we hear Jesus say, "for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."(Luke 19:10)

You see Jesus is our Savior, but we can't just sit around and hope that we hear his voice or see his face---we must seek him like the Samaritans and Zacchaeus did. While these people did get to see Jesus during the time that he was a man on this earth, we actually have the advantage, unlike these people we know the whole story. We know all the miracles he performed, we know that he died for us, we know that he rose from the dead, and we know that he will one day return for us!

I am glad to say that Jesus is not only my Savior, but He is truly the Savior of this world!