11/23/2025
Jesus is Lord!
Many people may say it flippantly or even vainly today. However, the confession of this phrase is the foundation of the christian faith. Christianity is known as the Great Confession since the early church when the early christians would not renounce their confession and allegiance to their Lord Jesus Christ even when it meant martyrdom under the Roman Empire's persecutions.
We receive God's grace of eternal salvation through this confession of faith and only in Jesus name. However, It is so much more than just saying the words. It is a change of heart and ownership of one's life. When I submit to Christ as my Lord and Savior, I no longer am in charge. I don't set the terms. I don't live any more as the Lord and Master of my own life, time, resources, relationships, purpose and destiny. It all belongs to Christ.
I am now saved by grace and required by new covenant to submit myself to God, die to myself (my fleshly or sinful desires) and resist the devil and all evil with all that is in my being for I have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. My life is no longer my own. I am His disciple. I am a new creation, a new person, in Christ Jesus. I have been crucified in Christ, nevertheless I live a new life in which Christ is living through me and I am living by the supernatural faith of the Son of God.
There is nothing else like this. No religion can even come close to real christianity. All religions are simply not the same. No one in all of human history can compare to the Lord Jesus Christ. No one else created all there is. No one else was the Son of God, born of the Virgin and the Holy Spirit. No one else was God and Man. No one else accomplished for us what Jesus Christ did through His death on the cross and subsequent resurrection to defeat death and give us eternal life. Therefore, no one else can be Lord, Jesus is Lord!
Welcome to christianity 101 where Jesus is truly Lord in our lives. Life will now be filled with challenges, adventures of faith and the power of God's Holy Spirit at work in and through our lives. We will no longer live for ourselves but live to give and serve.
New life has come because Jesus is my Lord.