“What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?” (Matt. 27:22).
Reader, have you answered this query in a way glorifying to God, and perfectly satisfactory to your own soul, by accepting Him as God’s love-gift to you, giving thanks to God the Father for such a Savior?
If still this question, so important, stands before your soul unanswered, I ask you to stop and think, as the Spirit of God presses it in upon your conscience now:
“What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?”
Receive Him, or reject Him, Which? You and Jesus the Christ, are put together in the verse, and as the words rise up before your soul, O, by faith, receive Him as yours, and have a foretaste here of what the saved will enjoy very soon in the glory of His presence face to face.
Why not now weigh the question in the balances of your immortal spirit? It reveals the fact, none are able to get rid of personal dealing with Christ, now in grace, or soon in judgment.
“Every eye shall see Him.”
As you read these lines, a crisis in your history is reached; it was so with Pilate, he sat on the judgment seat, while the chief priests, the elders, and the multitude stood around it, with One in their midst, “Who was oppressed, and afflicted; yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth” (Isa. 53:7). On Him every eye was fixed, against Him every tongue was let loose, revealing the dark hatred of Christ-rejecting hearts.
How solemn the moment, how solemn the question, to Pilate and all around him.
“What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?” They decide at once,
“Away with Him, let Him be crucified.”
What of Pilate who could say, “I find no fault in Him?” He halted between two opinions, till one sentence reached his ear, “If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend;” when he heard that saying; he made choice of Caesar’s friendship, and his choice sealed his doom.
What of yours, dear friend? Unlike Pilate, a crowd may not press around you, waiting your decision; yet in the quiet of your home, in the workshop, in the railway train, on the river, or on the sea, in the field, or by the way, this question, raised in your soul by the Holy Spirit, must be answered by you,
“What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?”
God waits your reply. You may now accept Him as your personal Savior, and know the forgiveness of sins, peace with God, and the fellowship of His heart; or you may now reject Him, and choose the world’s friendship, with the pleasures of sin for a season; and your choice may seal your doom.
Do you halt between two opinions? Listen to the UNANSWERED QUESTION OF SCRIPTURE,
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?” (Heb. 6:2).
Jesus is God’s salvation for you; trust him as you are, for “He receiveth sinners and eateth with them.”