Welcome to the world of a Christian. When CS Lewis talked (and then wrote) about Christianity, he was inviting us on the journey of knowing and loving Jesus the Christ.
Just a few short chapters into the second of four books (sections) of Mere Christianity, Lewis asks each of us to make a claim of who Jesus is. And just like when Peter professed that to him Jesus was the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the Living God (Matthew 16:16), we must wrap our minds and hearts around the identity of Jesus.
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with someone who said he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” (Mere Christianity, Book II, What Christians Believe, chapter 3)
Prayer
God, I know that as a Christian, I must choose to accept Your Son as God and Lord. Let me follow the One – Jesus — whom I affirm is the Christ, my Savior, and in whose name I pray. Amen.