Is That Your Final Answer?

Is That Your Final Answer?

Well, it has been a while.  Doesn't mean I haven't had anything to say, just busy and lazy.
Most of you have heard of the game "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". 
Pretty fairly played game.  You are asked a question and given multiple choice answers.  You make your choice and then you are asked, "Is that your final answer?"  The contestant usually responds, "Final Answer!"
If you guessed correctly or knew the answer you won money and moved on to the next question.  At some point in the game you might be asked a question that you are not too sure about so you are offered life lines.  You can ask the audience for help, you can phone a friend or ask a friend for help.  You can even eliminate two of the wrong answers to help your odds.  Not sure that too many of them have ever made it to the top. 
I was thinking of this game and how it is so appropriate in todays life happenings.
We are living in a hurting world.  People are going through things that we have never seen before.
Yes, there has always been hurting people, but it seems to me that they are in over and abundance these days. 
The world as a whole seems to be turned upside down in so many ways.  White is black, up is down, right is wrong.  No one seems to know the correct answers to any of the questions.
We have young people who are being told that it is okay if you don't think you are a boy or a girl, we have an answer for that.
We have people that are dead inside.  They are facing depression and anxiety and what seems to be insurmountable emotional problems.  Doctors say, that is okay, we have an answer for that.
Husbands and wives that believe they have fallen out of love with each other for what ever reason.  The Lawyers say, that's okay, we have an answer for that.
So many people that are hurting and don't seem to have the answer.  They think they do.  Bad marriage, get a divorce.  Don't like your gender, get a different one.  Don't like anxiety, take a pill. 
I know with the last one I am truly going to have people that think I don't believe in medicine.  That could not be further from the truth.  What I am saying is that it is not always the answer.  When it comes to divorce, I am not saying that is not always the answer.  When it comes to gender dysphoria, surgery is never the answer.
My point that I am trying to make is that we think we have the answers to all the questions.  Truth be known there is one final answer.  Jesus!
Jesus is the final answer!
Because you see, no matter what you are facing, what pain you are going through, Jesus is the answer.
So many of us do not want that to be the answer. 
If Jesus is the answer, it most always will call on you to lay down all the other answers.
It will call you into commitment.  You won't be able to rely on all the other answers that are out there.
I would never tell a woman, or even a man, to stay in a marriage that was totally destructive to or someone was being physically hurt.  But for that man or woman who is looking at the other one and says, "I just am not in love with this person anymore.  I don't feel like I did when we first got married.  They just don't do it for me anymore."  Well, Jesus is the answer.  He has the power to heal marriages.  He has the power to restore love and put back broken pieces.  He should be the first answer.  It will call you to turn off the porn on the computer.  It will call you to quit flirting, just to see if you still have it.  It will call you to praying for each other and lifting each other up.  It will call you to a commitment to putting Jesus first in your marriage.
Ask someone who got a divorce that has children and the struggle of letting them go every week or weekend.  The bitterness that lingers.  It isn't better.  Jesus was the answer.
The final answer.
You are anxious and depressed.  Jesus is the answer.  His Word, the Bible, tells us.  Be anxious for nothing.  I do believe that some people have medical reasons for taking medication for emotional problems but I also believe even more strongly that most people turn there first.  Because even though you may be on medications, for emotional pain or physical pain, it doesn't matter, you will not realize that you need to have Jesus first and that He is the healer.  Too many people get hooked on these drugs and their lives and the lives of those that love them are all affected.  Too many of us are dying from overdoses and looking for that next fix.  Seeking an answer for pain that never ceases.  Jesus is the answer.
The final answer.
Don't be fooled!  It isn't just people that don't have a relationship with Jesus that go through these things.  Everybody!!! I mean EVERYBODY faces trials and situations in our lives that we would just as soon not face.
Bad marriages, anxiety, depression, sicknesses, money problems, job loss, job problems, family issues, parents that won't listen, teenagers that have a mind of their own, etc...
And we HAVE the answer.  But like the game, we think sometimes it is multiple choice.  It is not!
Jesus is the answer.  The first answer, the second answer, the third answer..the final answer.
But we forget and start looking for answers instead of taking it to the cross.
If we could but remember at the onset of these issues that arise to go immediately to the Lord, to Jesus. 
Matthew 11 - Jesus tell us to come unto Him, all you who are weary, anxious, troubled, I will give you rest.  He wants to be yoked together with you.  He is telling you He is the answer.
Psalm 55:22 - Cast your burden on the Lord and HE will sustain you.. 
1st Peter 5:7 - Cast all your cares on Him (Jesus), for He cares for you.
Several years ago Andre Crouch had a song out that said, "Jesus is the answer for the world today.  Above Him there's no other.  Jesus is the way."
That has always been the truth. 
There is nothing that you are going through or facing that Jesus is not the answer.
Jesus is the answer!
Jesus is the first answer!
Jesus is the final answer!