Genesis 2: 4-9, John
6: 35-40
C.S.I Church Melariodu (28-April-2013)
I remember a story which I heard a long
time back from a preacher. I think it might be worth to mention now. Little Robert who is a member of a poor
family, he has a hobby to make wonderful toys. Once he made a small wonderful
butterfly. It has a special skill to talk to human beings. Little Robert was
happy about his creation and he loved it very much since it is his greatest
creation forever. He put the butterfly to his garden. He spent too much time
with it and taught so many things in the world.
Once, that
beautiful butterfly thought, it would be good to see the outside world. So it
decided to go outside of the garden, but it didn’t ask to Robert for the
permission since it knows that there is no chance to get a permission to go
outside of the garden. One day, it escaped from the garden. It enjoyed the
beautiful world, different kinds of flowers, buildings, other creatures, other
humans etc… But, unfortunately, a man found this beautiful butterfly toy and he
trapped it in to a cage.
After sometime,
Robert came back to the garden. He searched for his great creation. But he
could not find it. He worried. He searched around the garden, near to garden
and also so many places. But he failed to find it. Days passed. Still he is
worried about it. One day, while going through the street, he could see that
beautiful butterfly in a cage with a for sale board. He ran and asked the shopkeeper to let it
free. He refused. Robert said I have created this and I want it get back. The
shopkeeper said “You might be the creator, but now it is mine. If you want it
you need to pay money”. Robert looked on
the price tag; he worried since he does not have enough money to buy it. He
requested that shopkeeper to keep that butterfly; he will be back in few days.
Robert worked hard few days to get the enough money. After his hardworking, he
got the money. He ran to the Shop and purchased that butterfly by paying the
price.
Then he said to
the butterfly “I have created you and guided you. But you ignored me and
trapped to the beauty of the world. But now I purchased you by paying the price
for your wrong doing. Now you have the choice: either you can come with me or
live your own life in the world”. That butterfly said “You are my Lord I shall
come with you”. Robert became happy by
that decision.
Jesus said “I am the bread of life; He who
comes to me will never be hungry; he who belies in me will never be thirsty”.
We can try to study why we call the bread
of life as Lord of Life.
The word “Lord” means Teacher, God, Savior
etc… In the age of Old testament human beings called God as Lord since them
afraid to call God as God.
Why Jesus should be our Lord in our life?
Jesus, who created us?
Jesus, who is word, was part of the
creation at the beginning along with the God and the Holy Spirit. That’s why;
Jesus is the creator of the world and the human beings. We are agreeing that
Jesus is our creator. So Jesus is our Lord.
In Genesis 2:4-9, God creates human being;
he is not only creating human beings but also cares them. That’s why human
beings are placed in Garden of Eden. But they forgot their creator; fallen in
to Sin. This saddens God.
Jesus, who redeemed us from death?
Human beings who fallen in to sin trapped
in to the hands of death. The situation is something like the creator needs to
pay for his creation. Here, Jesus gave his blood as the price for his creation
by sacrificing his life on the cross. Like, how Little Robert struggled for days
to collect the necessary money; Jesus paid his life as the price.
What
Jesus expects from us?
After redeeming his creation, Jesus gave
the freedom to accept or reject that freedom. We can feel the real freedom
which is redeemed by Jesus is only at the time of accepting Jesus as Lord.
Simply saying, we are accepting the freedom by accepting Jesus as our Lord.
When the Butterfly decided to comeback with
Robert, they both became happy. Likewise when we decide to go with Jesus by
accepting as Lord, heaven will be happy. For that, can we accept Jesus as our
Lord? Can we say like the beautiful butterfly said “You are my Lord I shall
come with you”? Now it’s your choice. Amen.
