Captured

I have looked at world religions.
I have studied politics of the age.
I am aware of the culture’s hedonism.
I am sobered by realities of life and death.
I have read writers past and present.
I understand the world’s skepticism.
I hear the world’s anger and distrust.
I desire a day of peace and rest for all.
I believe in political freedom.
I stand for religious liberty.
I have considered the realms of secularism, atheism, and agnosticism.
I wonder at the Problem of Evil and Suffering.
I have studied atheists who have become Christians.
I have seen Christians who are now atheists.
I am not satisfied with pat answers.
I am not eager for foolish hopes.
I admit my own failings.
I do not know all the answers.

Yet, in all these things, I have been captured by Christ.

He engages a man’s reason--and transcends it.
He stokes the flame of faith--and tests it.
He entered man’s suffering--and absorbed it.
He received the world’s guilt--and cancels it.
He experienced death--and conquered it.

He gives clear answers to some.
He speaks obscure statements to others.
He is rejected in all times and all places.
But He will not go away.

There is evidence to support the Faith--though it is not coercive.
There is reason for those who will listen.

He said, “I am the light of the world.”