“ What Would Jesus Do? “
by Michelle Stace

     
     This is a popular phrase and I also believe quite dangerous. As we know, God’s word, His principles, are truth and righteousness.  They are established on the perfect purity and goodness of the Lord. They are a rock and a foundation. This is what Jesus lived by.
     “What would Jesus do,” is a phrase that subjects Him to the relativism of our day. (What’s good for me may not be good for you.)  It subjects Him to our erratic, deeply ingrained sin nature.  How can a sinful man make a judgement on what an absolutely holy God would do? How dare we? It subjects Him to much too easily compromised ideals. It subjects Him to our polluted desires and motives. We don’t like to hear this about ourselves - we don’t like to admit to this but it is the truth.
     Oh, how can we do this to our precious Lord?  We belittle Him and bring Him down to our level when we do this. Maybe the question we should be asking is, “What did Jesus do?”  He willingly obeyed all the Father’s commandments. His love was all encompassing - but never compromising. He sacrificed all. He suffered reproach, reviling, utter humiliation and did not return the same. He did not base His actions on emotional highs and lows. We live in a “touchy-feely” society where emotions rule. He was gentle and humble. Yet He had a steely cord at the center and did not suffer from misplaced compassion.
     We are to study the life of Jesus and follow in the footprints of the Lamb. Let His word, coupled with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, lead us. Let these work together, because the Spirit will never guide apart from the written Word.

     This is what Jesus would do.