Daily Walk Through the New Testament

July 8

Read Luke 9:18-43a

In today’s passage we read that Jesus asked the disciples who the crowds said He was. We know from Matthew 16:13 that at this time they were in the region of Caesarea Philippi, surrounded by a culture in which people worshiped various gods at various altars. There was an altar for Pan (the god of nature), a shrine to Baalism, and even an altar to worship the great Caesar of Rome.
It’s easy to repeat what others have said about Jesus, as the disciples did in (Luke 9:19). Jesus, however, always makes it personal. “He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Peter answered and said, ‘The Christ of God’” (vs. 20). Our world is filled with altars to other gods today, and our God continues to ask this personal question: “Who do you think I am?” Your answer will reveal the true altar of your worship.