To Those Looking for a Saviour

The needs of people today for survival are the same they have always been.  People need water to drink, food to eat, air to breathe, adequate shelter and sleep.  These days many more things have been tacked onto the list:  mobile phones, transportation, the internet, coffee, and social media.  I recently saw a television commercial of a new Holden car which boasts Facebook access from the center console!  A lot of the things people believe they need are not necessary for life.  Many of the activities and things purported to enhance our lives and we have come to believe we could not possibly live without them actually drain it away.

Times change, but the spiritual needs of people remains the same.  Even in this digital age of technology and information, many people remain in the dark ages spiritually.  Blinded by materialism, caught up in the pursuits of this earthly life, countless people are ignorant of their need for forgiveness and salvation.  Life is filled with many diversions which labour to lead us from the sole source of true wisdom and life.  The greatest need of man is God.  Our stomach tells us we are hungry, and our burning eyes reveal how tired we are.  It is the conscience of man which agrees with the righteous law of God that he is indeed a sinner and is without hope in himself.  It is only when a man is without hope that he desperately searches for a Saviour.

After Andrew met Jesus Christ, John 1:41 tells us:  "He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated, the Christ)."  Andrew was a Jewish man who was familiar with the Law and prophets.  The fact that he "found" the Messiah means that he was looking for him.  He was looking for the Messiah because he desired to meet and commune with Him.  Had he not recognised a need for himself or the nation for a Saviour, why would he be excited about finding Him?  Andrew was a fisherman who possessed wisdom and discernment the learned in Israel did not.  Andrew's excitement could not be contained, and he sought to tell his brother the great news of his discovery.  Both Andrew and Simon Peter would become followers of Jesus Christ, leaving everything behind for that privilege - an honour and privilege most people didn't even recognise.

Do you need a Saviour?  Have you been looking for Him?  Know that Jesus Christ has been revealed as the promised Messiah, the One who saves His people from their sins.  There is no life found in mobile phones and Facebook.  There is no life even in water, food, or air itself.  These things merely support life for a season.  In the end, we will all perish because the wages of sin is death.  Death has entered the world and death through sin.  But grace, salvation, and eternal life have come to this desolate world through Jesus Christ.  Peter boldly speaks today even as he spoke to the elders of Israel in Acts 4:10-12:  "...Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. ¹¹ This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' ¹² Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."  Looking for a Saviour?  Look no further than Christ!