IF JESUS CAME TODAY

I was thinking.  What if  Jesus had chosen to come today for His FIRST time.  What would we have done?.  And apart from it being a crucifixion - I am sad to say that I believe we would have done the very same thing.  We would have destroyed Him anyway we could.

Atheists would say there is no God therefore there can be no Son of God.

Self Righteous religions or individuals who follow there own concepts of the God they like to obey     and follow - the one who agrees with what they say is "right" or "wrong" would argue with Him when He called sin sin and, in truth, would take great offense at Him when He dared to say He would forgive someone of their sins when they confess and repent.   Heaven knows the rage He would cause when He continued to say He would judge and condemn those who don't.

Prideful or rich people, who like to be in control and think they are, would try to woo Him at first but once He condemned them in their thinking and their practices, they would quickly join the rabble that were plotting to get rid of Him.

Others would agree with philosophers and writers, who over the years, have not wanted to dismiss Him entirely but allow Him a little bit of recognition as a great teacher, speaker or motivator.  But they too in their hearts would still not consider Him anymore important than any other prophet of history or philosopher of old.

And the rest of us being the "most of humanity" would fall into two categories:  true believers and followers and the rest, who just could not care one way or the other, would pay no attention to Him at all.

I hope, pray and want to believe that we, who call ourselves TRUE believers, would be willing to follow Him no matter the cost and would cry out His Name and our praises at all times.  I do sometime picture myself being able to actually physically be with Him to sit at His feet as Mary did and to really listen and hear the sound of His voice and to look into His eyes as He gazes back into mine.  If time travel ever happens that is the trip I would like to take.

I can't imagine what type of death He would have had to devise to do as He did when He did come. Then He chose the most excruciating, cruelest form of death possible - dying on a cross.  I doubt the gas chamber or hanging would be enough - that is not the point.  The point is - I do believe - as sad as it is to believe, consider or dare to say - we would do the very same thing today as they chose to do over 2000 years ago.  We too would ignore His words and kill Him.