Who do you say it is?

On the way to Caesarea Philippi, Jesus was going in a conversation with his disciples. I imagine the conversations with Jesus, some of great depth and wisdom. It is very possible that the disciples have received many confrontations, because Jesus came to break all the structures that they had known and under which they had lived as culture and society until that moment. The many times where Jesus uses as an expression, to call them “men of little faith,” must have been because of how difficult it was for them to assimilate spiritual truths, while their minds tried to break with a belief that kept them tied to a system of laws. They knew God through laws and regulations. Their way of pleasing God was not through a personal relationship, but through practices of the law, which until then they knew and that no one had been able to fulfill as established.

I am convinced of how impressive every experience, every teaching, and even every confrontation Jesus must have made in his intimate moments with them must have been. So the way he spoke to them was different from the way he used to the people who followed them. Nothing like having been part of that intimate group of Jesus and receiving food from his heart to theirs.

On this occasion, Jesus confrontation with them was one of positioning. In Matthew 16: 13-20, Jesus asks his disciples: Who do men say the Son of Man? Immediately they answered what they heard people saying about Jesus. But the thing did not stop there, then he asks them the most important question in this story: And who do you say I am? WOW! It was no longer about what others were saying, now he was asking his intimate group how they saw it. And Peter immediately answered the greatest truth that could have been said: “You are the Christ, the son of the living God. Jesus immediately had an answer for him and said: “Blessed are you Simon, son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my father who is in heaven. And I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it”.

Peter had just recognized in an instant all the greatness and purpose of God in one sentence. Jesus was the fulfillment of God’s plan, Jesus was the verb, the finished work of God through which men would have back what had been taken from them and it was revealed to Peter. Jesus admired Peter’s revelation, recognizing that it could only have come to him as a revelation from his Father and immediately positioned him. For me this was like an exchange. When Jesus saw that Peter had received such a great revelation, then he could give him a commission of power like the one that was entrusted to him.

Today the question is for you and me: Who do you say He is? Hopefully today you can understand the depth of this question, because according to what you can understand that He is, this is how He will move in your life. According to the revelation you have received from Him, He will be able to operate in your life. Can you really believe what the Bible says about Him? Do not say yes without thinking this question, because believing in God is not the same as believing to God. Jesus came to bring his kingdom through us, and if we evaluate our lives in light of this word, they are far from living a life that shows his kingdom and that moves from the power of the consummate work of Jesus. Let’s evaluate our lives and think if we really are the church that He left on this earth to govern and establish his kingdom. It is time to be empowered by his accomplished work and to be the children for whom the earth is crying out to see the manifestation of his glory. Are you ready to manifest his glory? Blessings.