Who do you say that I am?

“Who do you say that I am?”
Matt 16:15


To me, these are the most powerful words in Scripture. They are Christ’s challenge to respond to his appearance as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This is our time. This is when Scripture becomes personal. This is our turn to be part of scripture no matter how many years it has been since the birth of Christ. Each of our responses is individualized, private, as well as personal. It is what we believe Christ is after our leap of faith. Our response is our baptism or our conversion. God loves, we respond. There are no stock answers to this basic question. If your spouse would ask to you the same question, “Who do you say that I am?” your answer would be personal and customized to your particular private relationship. This is the beauty of God. He gives us the freedom to each respond in our own way to this basic question.
To me, he is the one who fulfills me the most, the one whom I want to be with for all time. He is the one that I strive to see in the faces of the poor. He is the one who along with me laughs at my private jokes. He is the creator of all that is different in the world.