Creator, Sustainer, and Restorer

Scotty Smith:  A Prayer for Answering the Main Question in Life

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think about the Christ?” Matt. 22:41-42

Lord Jesus, the question you directed to Pharisees, you still put before us: “What do you think about the Christ?” There’s no more important question for us to ponder in every season of life. Yesterday’s confession needs to be today’s possession. Continue to free us from all wrong notions we’ve ever had about you—those generated by our fallen hearts; the ones manufactured by the father of lies; others sown and rooted by years of which incomplete or flat-out heretical teaching.

On this beautiful October morning, what do I believe about you? Why have I surrendered my life and entrusted my death to you? Here are a few of the things which immediately flood my heart with joy. Lord Jesus, you are everlasting God—equal in glory with the Father and Holy Spirit; and I am a mere man. I would despair if you were anything less, and I’m very weary of trying to be more. You are the Creator, Sustainer, and Restorer of all things. In you all things hold together and for you all things have been made. You don’t just care about my soul, you care about my whole being.

You are the second Adam—our substitute in life and in death. You lived a life of perfect obedience for us, and you exhausted God’s judgment that stood against us. Though your resurrection, you conquered death and secured our eternal life. By you, we have been completely forgiven, and in you, we have been declared perfectly righteousness. Because of what you have done for us, God cannot love us more than he does in this very minute and he will never love us less.

As I pray, you are at the right hand of the Father advocating and interceding for us. You are presenting redeeming your pan-national Bride and are making all making all things new—even though it may not appear that way to us.. You are the Lord of lords, the Lamb of God and the Lamp of the New City. You have the heart of every king in your hand and are placing all your enemies under your feet. O, Lord Jesus, you are all this and so much more. Eternity will be an endless revelation of your glory and grace.

But thinking about you today, what stuns me the most is to realize you are always thinking about us. We are in your heart and on your mind all the time. Hallelujah, what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a salvation! With fresh gratitude and awe, we worship you. So very Amen we pray, in your merciful and mighty name.