Only Christ

As I'm writing this, I'm sitting at my desk in my office at church on the verge of starting a series of meetings on the Bible that will last 27 presentations. They're called "Revelation of Hope" and it couldn't be happening at a more opportune time.

At this time, there is instability in the Middle East with Syria killing their own people, our economy is still out of whack with people having to live consistently on unemployment, and to make matters worse...our government has shut down. Everyone is wondering how to fix this and that as well as asking, "Is there anything I can even trust anymore?"

Yes there is. Only Christ.

You see, only Christ has sacrificed who He was to be made in the same flesh and bone we have.
Only Christ has promised a permanent--eternal--solution to everything that is wrong.
Only Christ has died for us so that we can be there.

I wonder if we really understand that last one. HE died so that WE wouldn't have to. But the story doesn't end there. If He simply died for our sins only and then was put in tomb forever more...where would our reward be? If He died so that we could die good...it's not exactly something to get excited about.

But there's something else. Christians don't have hope because Christ died...Christians have hope because He died and was raised to life again! Who else has been able to accomplish the fact that Jesus Himself made:

John 10:17 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again."

Who else has done this? Who else has impacted the world in such a way? Who else changed the very flow of history to such a degree that time itself is measured by time before Him and time after Him? Who else has stood in our place and taken what we deserve only to give us what He deserves? Who else can love like this?

Only Christ.