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?
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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.