Daily Devotional

On this Tuesday of Holy Week, Jesus once again returned to Jerusalem. He walked into the Temple courts—the very heart of Israel’s worship—and began to teach. Every word He spoke stirred the crowds, but it also irritated the Pharisees and the religious rulers. His presence unsettled them. His authority threatened them. And so, they challenged Him, questioning who He thought He was. But Jesus turned the question back on them: “What do you think about the Christ?”
It is a question that refuses to stay in the first century. It reaches across time and lands in our own hearts. Because our relationship with Christ is not only something we feel—it is something we must think about. Thought gives shape to feeling. Thought gives direction to love. If we truly love someone, we must do more than feel affection; we must reflect, consider, and understand that love.
Many relationships suffer simply because we stop thinking about them. We stop tending to them. And if this is true of human relationships, how much more true is it of our relationship with Jesus? It is good to say, “I love Jesus.” It is better to know why you love Him. And that “why” requires thought—honest, prayerful, intentional thought.
This question—“What do you think about the Christ?”—is the most important question of life. How we answer it shapes how we answer every other question that confronts us. What we think about Christ influences how we parent, how we love, how we work, how we handle money, how we serve, how we endure hardship, how we respond to enemies, and how we set the direction of our lives.
When we think about Christ, we remember where we could have been. We remember where we are now. We remember that we are not where we are because of our own strength, but because of His goodness. We remember that Christ has done for us what no one else could ever do. And remembering leads to commitment—a quiet, steady, daily commitment: “Lord, help me be a better disciple today than I was yesterday.”

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