Last week at bible study, somehow it popped up in the conversation, If Jesus were around on earth now, what would he drive? Someone suggested a big flash car, Someone else suggested he'd still walk around, i suggested a beat up old Ford, and someone else suggested a hippy VW combi. Well i've been thinking about that. If Jesus came to earth today, rather than 2 thousand years ago, what would his journey be like? What would he eat? What would he think of our churches? Or of the varying religions? Would he walk through the main streets of town, or the back streets?

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I think the combi is probably would he would drive, if he drove anything. [Yay Annie & Laura!]

I think he'd probably sleep at backpacker hostels.

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Would he have a silly sense of humour? Would he be amused by toilet humour like most of us are?

Would he get down with the little people, and meet them where they are at with every day things?

What would he say about the churches? Would he be getting angry and tipping over tables in the church grounds? Would he be angry at what we've made it as a nation?

Would he be disoppointed at what we, as a culture, have become?

And what would he say to all those well intentioned followers who think they are doing the right thing, but are actualy pushing people away from God? And what would he say to the people who they pushed away?

And how would the church respond to him?

We are selfish people. The "church" as most of the world sees it, is still really what it always has been: Organised religion. There is still no place for Jesus within it's walls. Would we be quicker today to crucify him than we were 2 thousand years ago?

And how many of us "Followers" would really follow him to that cross?

Would you?

When i first became a Christian, i was given a movie to watch that changed my life yet again. It was the first Left Behind movie, set in the 70's. I don't remember a lot about it, but i remember what changed me. In it, the mark of the beast came, and whoever didn't renounce Christ had their head chopped off via a gilatine [or however it's spelt lol]. And the people knew it was going to happen before it happened. They were asked at the gilatine[?] for the last time, if they would renounce Christ and live with their loved ones here on earth, or die right now. After watching that, i cried and cried!

I realised that i had to decide right there and then wheather i would have my head chopped off and leave everything else behind to follow Christ. And it's not a one-off choice either, I have to decide every day to have my head chopped off.

I read in a book once a line that rings very true for all of us. "Live every day as if it's your last, because one day it will be." How awesome is that?!

And Christ is here today. He is with us when we are cooking our family a meal, cursing that driver who cut us off, pottering in the garden, handing that elderly person a grocery item from a high shelf in the supermarket, getting excited over reaching the high score in an X-Box game. He is right there through it all. And he cares about it all.

What would Jesus be like?

For me He would be the best freind a girl could have. He'd make the best coffee [decaf of course], and tell me honestly if my dress made me look fat..cough..fatter. He'd be the re-assuring shoulder to cry on when things go wrong, and he'd carry my load for me and still ask for more, We'd laugh at the silly antics of a cat, We'd lay under the stars and he'd tell me what each star does or belongs to. We'd talk about heavan and how awesome it is. I'd tell him about my dad, and he'd tell me about his. And when i'm with him, nothing else would matter. The best freind a girl could have!

And all he wants in return is for me to believe in him just half as much as he believes in me :o)