My boss was born 2,000 years ago in a manger in Bethlehem, born to a peasant lady and a carpenter. He didn't have much growing up... just a robe and a pair of sandals. He taught new, mind blowing ideas to the people, and worked miracles right in front of them. He didn't hold a grudge, but this didn't mean he wasn't shy about breaking the occasional table.
Even with all of this, popular opinion turned against him. Many of his friends ran away, one denied him, and one betrayed him. They arrested him in the night, mocked him in the temple, beat him, and nailed him to a cross between two thieves.
As they drove the nails through him, he called out to the sky, saying "Father forgive them, they know not what they do." (luke 23:34) When he was dead, they took him down and laid him in a tomb...
But something happened! Three days later, my boss arose from the grave, having defeated death, and ascended bodily into heaven before his disciples' eyes. But before he went, he told them he was coming back to give them eternal life in the kingdom of his father.
My boss, if you haven't figured it out already, is Jesus Christ, the son of God. Until a year or two ago, I never knew about him. I always thought he was just "the reason for Christmas and Easter." But later, I would learn he as not only those two, but my only hope of getting into heaven. He said it himself "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except by me." (john 14:6)
He doesn't pay me in money, or women, or cars, or anything like that. Once he's in your mind, he opens your eyes and your mind to everything. You'll achieve heights of moral purity and inner peace, and fear will be nothing but a distant memory.
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