I would tell you that your only lasting hope is in Jesus Christ. We create a lot of functional saviors for ourselves - drugs, sex, alcohol, money, food, etc. A lot of those things aren’t even bad, but they’re not God. Or they shouldn’t be. Jesus is God, and Jesus is the ultimate answer and fulfillment of every weary longing or hopeless, cyclical sin or struggle.
I think that it’s worth saying that I know a lot of people will write me off as soon as they read that. That’s fine, but it’s worth it for you to know that I don’t just run off at the mouth about Jesus because I’ve been brainwashed into recruiting people for my religion. I proclaim the name of Jesus Christ because he’s the only hope that I have. The Jesus of the Bible is a God - the God - that loves you, and that understands you, and that knows you by name. He sympathizes with you because he knew pain like you know pain. He knows hurt like you know hurt. He knows loss like you know loss. And for the Christian, he defeated Satan, sin, death, hell and the wrath of God by dying in your place and, like my dad used to tell me, we can unclench our fists, hold out our hands flat before him, and allow him to take our burdens away.
That is not mindless squawking off at the lip. That’s not stupid oral or written tradition for the deceived, naive, or ignorant mind. I think that anyone, if they took a good look at their lives, and took a good look at Jesus’ life and life-giving teaching and fulfillment of Scripture, would know that Christ speaks into the very depths of our heart’s desperation for him. His word does not return void: if you seek, you will find, and what you find will be the Jesus that has been knocking on the door of your heart all along.
It is a shame to think that even in the eyes of Christians, the gospel can become cliche. It is not cliche, and it cannot be over-spoken. That’d be like saying oxygen is over-rated.
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