Wednesday, July 27, 2005
# 35: Self Examination
At its very best, how inadequate this physical life is to satisfy our inner most needs.
We were inherently designed with a need for greatness which this world cannot offer.
As human beings, we were intuitively created to live in perfection. Unknown to most, this is what we are all seeking from the day we are born.
The inadequacies of an imperfect world and its inability to give us the perfection we desire can lead some to seeking an inward perfection. Once knowledge of this perfection is made available through the power of belief in God, then one can, not only, tolerate all the dignified selfishness this world can offer, but even thrive with the joy that comes from living the truth.
When a person is doing the things of Christ, with the right motive, she or he won’t find time to do important things which aim at self-betterment.
If you were Christ and you wanted to make sure your followers carried on the work you started, would you be content with the way the Christian church is doing what you started? What is there in the church that resembles what Christ did and the way He lived? As I see Christian religions, not much. Read the New Testament again looking for likenesses. I doubt you will find many.
This is the gripe I have and am sure Jesus feels the same. What right do the religions have to call themselves Christ-like-ones (Christians)? Christ has been waiting patiently for over 2000 years for the pseudo church that carries His name to self-destruct. I don’t think it will be long. He is waiting for a few courageous souls, along with a few powerful angels, to live out their part as it is mentioned in the book of Revelations.
When we are content living in the frailties and joys of humanity, there is little chance or reason for us to seek anything better. That is one reason money is harmful; it makes life comfortable; and comfort is a precursor to contentment and contentment closes the door to spiritual reality. Nowadays, it doesn’t take a lot of money, or to be rich, to live in a mesmerized comfort. Then, religion becomes a means of getting God to sanction one’s easy lifestyle. This is the ambience that type of lifestyle creates: “He is a Christian and he is well-off; therefore, it is okay to be comfortable, have money and be a Christian.”
In America, this attitude has caught-on like wild-fire in the last hundred years, especially in the charismatic and the prosperity “Praise the Lord for it” religious movement (Trinity Broadcasting Network). I say holy-bull . . . . It is not whose religion is wrong and whose religion is right, but whose religion is wrong and whose religion is wronger, (Upsy-daisy)!
The only commodity of true value we possess is what we believe. When the quality of our belief is extremely inwardly satisfying , we are wealthy beyond expressible words. When the quality is less than satisfying we are paupers without knowing it. That is to say, our belief can make us or break us.
Is there anything that Jesus Christ did or was that He wouldn’t what us to do or be? If not, then that is the answer to what the Christian life should consist of.
One of the biggest diversions in organized Christianity is that they put too much emphasis on the grandeur of future and not enough on the present day hell we must go through, with joy.
What is it that we have in common with God? The ability to love and be loved. Also, through the power of uncompromising belief, we have the ability to control the physical. Being like Him is what we need, to satisfy our most inner needs. If a person delves deep enough, one will discover that God and us are made-up of the same essential ingredient: belief. There is one big difference, God is going in one direction with His belief, while we may be going in two directions.
