There are many answers to the question in our heading, but the most frequent is to say: I need Jesus because I love Him. It would be great that we all need Jesus because in Him we discover that we are totally miserable, but the truth is that people seek Jesus for different reasons and seeking Him for love is the last of them.
Remember that when Jesus was in the world, many people followed Him for the miracles that He produced, others for the distribution of fish and bread, others to discuss issues of the law of Moses and thus find a way to make Him stumble and then accuse Him, also there were His 12 disciples and some pious women who looked for Him beyond all that He could do.
What group of people do we belong to? Do we only need Jesus to solve our problems, when we are sick, when we are in shortage? Do we only need the words of Jesus to debate some theological subject and then presume that we are endowed with all science? Why do we need Jesus?
The apostle Peter made the most profound statement in the 4 Gospels and this resulted when Jesus asked His disciples if they also wanted to leave and Peter answered:
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
John 6:68-69
Let’s see, Pedro did not say: “Who will we go to if only you can solve our problems?” “Who will we go to if only you can heal us?” “Who will we go to if only you can give us bread and fish?” No! Peter could see with great clarity the meaning of following Jesus, which goes beyond the physical things we can obtain from Him.
In Jesus we understand how miserable we are, in Him we understand how much we need God and His Word is enough for us, a precious Word that gives us life and frees us from our chains.
Jesus is more than a healer, Jesus is our Savior and in Him we can live confidently.
When we approach Jesus with sincerity, we realize that our greatest need is not material but spiritual. Human beings tend to focus on their external problems—lack, pain, uncertainty—but Jesus came to address the deepest need of all: the salvation of our souls. This truth is often forgotten when people only seek God as a temporary refuge or as a solution to their troubles. However, the gospel shows us that following Christ is not merely about receiving but about being transformed.
Many people in the crowds followed Jesus because they saw signs and miracles, yet few were willing to follow Him when His teachings confronted their hearts. This reveals something important: our motives matter. God sees beyond our requests and examines the attitude with which we come to Him. Do we draw near only for blessings? Or do we come because we understand that without Him we are lost?
True need for Jesus is born when we recognize our spiritual poverty. To need Jesus is to declare, with humility, that we cannot save ourselves, that we cannot break the chains of sin by our own strength. It is to understand that His words are life, guidance, and hope in the midst of a world full of confusion. Just as Peter recognized that no one else had the words of eternal life, we too must reach that conviction that Christ alone is sufficient.
Furthermore, Jesus does not only give eternal life; He gives purpose to those who follow Him. When we walk with Christ, we discover a new way of seeing life, understanding suffering, and facing trials. He changes our priorities and leads us to live not for temporary rewards but for eternal truths. This transformation is one of the greatest proofs that we truly need Him.
Therefore, the question is not if we need Jesus—because we all do—but if we are willing to accept Him for who He truly is: the Holy One of God who came to redeem us. May our hearts imitate Peter’s response, recognizing that there is no other place to go outside of Christ, for only He can satisfy the deepest hunger of our souls. And when we embrace this truth, our faith grows, our motives are purified, and our walk with God becomes deeper and more genuine each day.
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Why do you need Jesus?
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We are born in sin, as the Bible teaches us in words of the psalmist
“Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
(Psalm 51:5).
This is our condition, we are sinners and in such a way we can not please God because he is pure and Holy. God has determined that all people shall die, as a result of sin from the beginning and our inheritance from our first parents.
We know it perfectly, and the Word tells us that “…it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrew 9:2)
Jesus is the Life. We want to live. We need Jesus. We need a lawyer, a defender, an advocate also, as the Word says:
“And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous”
(1 John 2:1)
How can someone love Jesus if they do not know him, if they do not look for him every day in prayer to the Father God, through Jesus himself? In prayer we can speak with him as one who loves another, speak confidently with him, telling him “ours things”, as we talk with a friend, his words are life are peace. Like The apostle Peter said:
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
We need Jesus for more than begging him to help us in our material things. We depend on Him for all our life here, for our near future, and in the announced judgment after our death.
Jesus has been sent to us because God loved us: He wants us to be in his presence, in his Glory for ever.
He has done a lot of things to our welfare; he loves you, and you and me ought to love him and be grateful people.
We need Jesus; we need to receive Him in our hearts and in our souls. We must have fellowship with him because he loves us and want us to love him.
May God by his Spirit lead us to know and to love the Lord Jesus as he deserves.
AMEN.