Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.” (Luke 23:4, NIV 1984).
My Musings – The chief priests brought Jesus to Pilate, the Roman Governor of Judaea, for trial. Upon examination, Pilate found “no basis for a charge against this man.” We must all examine Jesus’ claims to determine if there is a basis for believing what He said about Himself.
I think C. S. Lewis said it best. “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher…Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
My Advice – That being the case, we must follow Joshua’s advice. “If serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15, NIV 1984). But we must be careful in our examination before we choose. For if Jesus was who He said He was, it makes all the difference in the world (to come).
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