Footprints Of Jesus
“Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hears, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.” Luke 7:22
At some point in the life of John the Baptist, he wanted to know whether Jesus really was the Messiah or not. Jesus did not present arguments to prove that He was the Messiah but pointed the messengers from John to the work He was doing.
The best evidence that Jesus is Christ is from the works that He has done and is doing every day.
When an atheist asked an Oriental man how he knew there was a God. The man answered by inquiring, “How do I know whether it was a man or a camel that passed by my tent last night?” He knew by the footprints. Then he pointed to the setting sun and asked: “Whose footprint is that?”
Whose prints are those by the gate of Nain restoring life to the widow’s dead son, by the grave at Bethany calling Lazarus forth, coming away from the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea after three days?
Whose prints are those along the path where the leper, the blind, the lame, the demoniac got healed and delivered? Or look around at what you see now – churches, missions, cleansed sinners, renewed lives, comforted mourners: whose prints are these? These works are the best pieces of evidence of Christianity for Christ wants to be judged, not by His claims, but by His works. The world is full today of the proofs of Christ’s divinity.
In like manner, we must prove that we belong to Christ, not by getting certificates of church membership, but by showing in our daily lives the unselfishness, the sympathy, the self-denial, the kindness, the love that was the highest proofs on Christ’s own life of His divine mission. We must be able, when we are asked if we are Christians, to say: “Look at my life and my works, and judge for yourselves.”