Would Jesus Blog?

Would Jesus Blog?

by Holly Moulder

 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

--Hebrews 13: 8

 

          Today I started a new blog.  For most people, this would seem like a simple endeavor.  But to me, modern technology is one of the great mysteries of life.   I just don’t have the brain power to figure it out.

 

          So, this was big deal.  The video narrator exclaimed, “You’ll have your very own blog in 20 minutes or less!”  Obviously, this person had never dealt with anyone like me.  Six hours later, I was ready to snap my Toshiba in half and send the parts to the happy little voice on the other end of the website.

 

          While I waited for my computer to download the next page of instructions, I thought about how Jesus would deal with this computer age.  When I picture the Savior, He’s in a long white robe with full sleeves, sandals on his feet, his face peaceful and calm.  Holding to that image, I have to wonder:  if Jesus had come to earth in this era of high rise offices and tiny cubicles, would He struggle with this age of technology like many of us do?  Would He get confused setting up His Twitter account?  Would He get frustrated when the server crashed or His inbox filled up with spam?   And consider Matthew 28:31.  If a hungry Jesus cursed the fig tree for not bearing fruit, what could the God of the Universe do to a laptop that had frozen up?

 

          Oh, how arrogant we humans can be!  Do we dare to forget who He is?  He alone created the world.  He alone made us in His own image.   He didn’t need a how-to DVD or an internet podcast to form the earth and everything on it!  Isaiah 45:18 exclaims—

 

“For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited —
he says:
“I am the Lord,
and there is no other.”

         

          He’s here with us now, in the midst of tv shows and rock stars, internet moguls and email.  Fox News and CNN hold no surprises for Him.  He knew about Facebook, Apple, and Youtube long before Steve Jobs dropped out of college or Mark Zuckerburg started kindergarten.

 

So, to answer my own question:  yes, I think Jesus would blog.  I think He’d do anything and everything to reach out to his children.  Even in our puffed-up self-importance, He’d still come looking for us, drawing us to Him.  Whatever it took, He’d do it.  Because He already did.  At Calvary.

 

 “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

--Matthew 28:20