Blessed is the Man

“Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.” 

                                                                                                    Matthew 11:6

John who is now in prison hears of Jesus ministry. He then sends his disciples to Jesus to ask if He is indeed the Christ.
Jesus in essence tells him to look at the signs. The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the leper is cured, the deaf hear, the dead raised and the good news is preached to the poor.
Then Jesus adds “Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”
It is so easy to fall away from Christ especially in our day and age. We are and have been waiting for Christ’s return for over two millennium.
It takes a lot to wait that long.
Jesus is the only founder of a religious group that said he will return. This is something we must hold onto as a true statement.
We are called to follow Jesus by faith.
We must have faith that the Bible is true. That the miracles spoken of in the Bible are true.
We must have faith in the words of the apostle Paul when he says in Ephesians that we are saved through our faith not our works.
Christianity is very much a walk of faith. We are presented the truth about Jesus in the Bible and are asked to make a decision as to wether we believe it or not. There is no middle ground.
Moreover we must live our faith openly before those around us.
We must not be ashamed of what the Bible tells us about Jesus no matter what those around us say.
Jesus performed miracles, something that in the twenty first century or for that matter in any century can seem far fetched. Yet the Bible asks us to believe them.
And through the ages the words Jesus said to John the Baptist calls out to us, “Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”  

Something to think about.

Do you truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that he did indeed perform all the miraculous things spoken of in the Bible?