Ravi Zacharias

Last Thursday after my bible study meeting my Bible study group had decided to attend the speech that was being given by Ravi Zacharias. From what various people had told me about him, he was a rather well-known and acclaimed Christian philosopher. When I had first seen the flyer for his appearance at Virginia Tech I wanted to attend because I had heard of how great a speaker he was, but didn’t expect to go because I just won’t have the time or the ambition to make it over there at the time. I was first invited to go by my girlfriend to whom I of course said I would go. Knowing that I would be there with someone gave me the motivation to make sure I attended the event. The night that my Bible study met they informed me that they planned on attending the event with Ravi Zacharias that night. At the time I didn’t realize it but had I not been pre-invited by my girlfriend I would still have attended the event with my Bible study group. During Ravi Zacharias’s speech I was compelled to listen. What I had heard about him was true but certainly understated his effects and presence. I sat and listen with great attention as he talked about the evil in life and the ways we can come to accept them in our lives and move forward.

A particular moment that stuck out to me was his expansion on Matthew 22:15-22 the story where the Pharisees tried to trick Jesus by asking if it was right to pay taxes to Caesar. Jesus asks whose image is on the coin and the Pharisees reply “Caesar” to which Jesus replies “Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's”. Ravi Zacharias went on to say there was another question to be asked after this “What belongs to God?” to which Jesus who have said “Whose image lies on you.” This hit me in particularly deep way realizing that humans were created in the image of god that his image lies on us and within us, it is right to offer ourselves to God and do as he teaches. After I left the event this thought was remained in my mind and was for me a powerful message of Christian responsibility.