Jesus is God (John 10:22-30)

Today's scripture: John 10:22-30

I've written in previous devotionals that many people say that Jesus never claimed to be God, to be divine. Today's verses belie that statement.

Jesus said, very clearly, that He was the giver of eternal life. Only God can give eternal life. Only He is omnipresent and outside of time.

And if that's not enough, Jesus said, "I and the Father are one." It's a simple mathematical hypothesis: If A equals B, then B equals C. (Or something like this ... It's been a very long time since I've taken any math class.) The Father is God. Jesus is one with the Father. Therefore, Jesus is God.

No reasonable person can say, after reading God's word, that Jesus never claimed divinity. He absolutely did, and when He rose from the dead, He proved His claim to be true. And because Jesus did indeed claim to be God, we all need to make a decision about Him. As C.S. Lewis so eloquently wrote:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Jesus claimed to be God. He proved that claim. Therefore, He is God.