Moving my way through The Divine Conspiracy as a refresher, I gain wonderful reminders of how to communicate exactly why I follow Christ. It is not to punch my ticket and get out of hell. It is not to save the world or solve the issues of poverty.

Jesus, quite frankly, is the smartest person who ever lived. He is, quite frankly, incredibly beautiful in every way. The more I know him the more I know I would be a fool to NOT follow him.

Dallas Willard puts it this way:

And can we seriously imagine that Jesus could be Lord if he were not smart? If he were divine, would he be dumb? Or uninformed? Once you stop to think about it, how could he be what we take him to be in all other respects and not be the best-informed and most intelligent person of all, the smartest person who ever lived?

The earliest apprentices of Jesus saw him that way. They followed. They were truly ALL IN.

Think about it. This is a man who changes the molecular structure of water so it turns to wine. How long would it take a scientist in a lab to do that? Feed the world? Is this a problem for this man? Think about it. This is a man who could transform human tissue from diseased to wholeness. He could suspend gravity, interrupt weather patterns, and eliminate unfruitful trees without a saw or ax. He only needed a word.

Think about it.

Ultimately, this is a man who seized death by the throat and won. Forget cryonics.

His compassion is unsurpassed. It’s not just all the outward stuff.

He is Master because he is Maestro. Jesus isn’t just nice. He’s brilliant.

He is beautiful. Spend time around this man and you find out he is irresistible.