Do You Have Jesus?

 "Do you have Jesus?" was the question.

So I said...

"You mean, like, in the trunk of my car or something?”

 And as she began to clarify her question, I said...

"Look - We are all rushing to our graves, trying to build a "better world."

And by "better world" I mean mostly more comforts, conveniences, and entertainment (and war is the greatest entertainment of all), even though we all know that everything we are doing to build this "better world" is killing us just as much as our planet - which just happens to be the only planet on which any of those things can even exist, as far as we know.

And you're telling me that none of that should matter, as long as I have Jesus? 

Do you have any idea how much "having Jesus" has contributed to this mess?"

Nor is the person who  claims to "have Jesus" somehow going to have the solutions to all of our problems. In fact, history shows the very opposite to be true.

And that means "having Jesus," as you mean it, is really about jumping ship, which is going to hell anyway, because you're convinced there's no way to stop it.

 And that perspective  is far too pessimistic for me.

So no, I don't "have Jesus," in the sense that you mean it.

I do have him in the trunk of the car, however. And he didn’t even put a fight.