ALJUN P.
CALDEA
BSCRIM 1B
(Essay) How does Jesus makes sense in for your life?
There are things in life that we have just accepted difficult
things, unfair things, tragic things for which we have no
explanation. But the time may come when we’re forced to
confront these questions. When troubles strike close to
home, we may either accept the fact that we have no
answers or perhaps come up with answers that may later
be proved wrong. That takes us back to square one. Is it
possible to find the answers we need?
Why do we face adversity no matter how careful we may
be in life? Adversity sometimes enters our lives by
circumstances beyond our control. Sometimes it comes
because of our own mistakes or the mistakes of others.
Yet some seem to sail through life with no troubles. This is
particularly irksome when they are proud, selfish or cruel
people. Why do bad people become prosperous? Why do
good people sometimes face so many trials?
The Bible records people of God who faced similar
questions about things that didn’t make sense. Asaph
wrote, “But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my
steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the
boastful, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
“Behold, these are the ungodly, who are always at ease;
they increase in riches. Surely I have cleansed my heart in
vain, and washed my hands in innocence. For all day long
I have been plagued, and chastened every morning”
(Psalm 73:2-3, 12-14).
How does Jesus makes sense in for your life? This is a
question that I always manage to tear up about when I
answer. I don’t wanna use all the traditional adjectives to
describe him. Jesus is the one man who can look at me
with love and when I am covered in the most dirt. He is
willing to take me by the hand even when I turn away from
him. Jesus is someone I can not describe because there is
nothing I know that I can compare him to. He takes care of
me when I am depressed, crushed, lonely, or broken.
When I stand before him all my shadows are seen. He is
the one that never leaves my side. He is more than a
friend, more than a father, he is my savior. I can’t
comprehend his infinitely beautiful and perfect love.
Jesus is my Savior. If it wasn’t for God’s ultimate sacrifice
of his son, we would not be forgiven. Also I know that I am
protected and can do anything because I have accepted
Jesus into my heart.
Personally Jesus is many things to me and means many
things to me. First he is God’s son and is the best example
of who God is and calls us to be, he was blameless and
pure; to put it simpler, he was perfect. His time of teaching
on earth was short but was not short of being a huge
impact. Through teaching, praying and leading, Jesus was
purely God in the flesh, a man with the same temptations
and longings that we as humans have. There are many
questions that are hard to answer about what Jesus meant
by this or why he did that, but what he desires is a heart
that is open to his use and a heart that seeks after him in
everything that we do.
From the beliefs passed on to me from my parents, I’ve
come to believe that Jesus is God’s Son, and the only way
to salvation. I have always believed in Jesus and what he
did for humanity two thousand years ago. I have accepted
that gift of salvation. The aspect of Jesus that I struggle
with the most is the personal relationship part. I’ve grown
up believing that God longs to have a personal
relationship with every one of his people and have even
been exposed to great examples of this through my
parents. However, I have struggled to put that into
personal practice. I can’t seem to figure out what to do to
take my faith from something that saved me from hell and
transform it into something that resembles an actual
relationship.
At this point in my life, I believe that Jesus is different and
individualized to each person. At this moment, to me, He
is simply a basis at which to place faith on. That may
sound demeaning, but I mean it in the way that faith must
be based on some concrete principle or idea or the faith
has the possibility of lacking any real meaning. Without all
of the parables and miracles in the Bible, it would be
difficult to have any faith in a higher power.
