When two of Jesus’ followers came upon Jesus and asked Him who He was, Jesus’ reply to them was: “I am the light of the world. Whoever believes in me will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 8:12-13). Since we live in a society marked by endless debates and theological conflicts, people throughout the world are imagining Jesus as a rebel. So it behooves us to perceive Him as the true Lord Jesus Christ. It is interesting to note that in John 8:12-19 the followers asked the question, “who is the friend of God?” Jesus’ reply to them was this: “I am the God of God. Whoever believes in me, my friends, has seen the light.” This essentially calls forth the question: “Is Jesus God, or is Jesus just? Is Jesus an undermines of God, or is Jesus God and God come to be as us?” When we read in the Bible of the confidants and prophets of God talking about this man Jesus, it leads us to conclude that this was the tradition of the Church, and that it still remains to this day.
Here’s the story of a man from Nazareth. The followers of Jesus, the Jews, on several occasions witnessed an encounter between Jesus and some of his followers. One of the events happened in Acts 12:6-23. A man from Antioch came to the home of an affectress who was serving Jesus and asked the Savior for his son as a servant. Jesus accepted, and the servant named Tim darkened a blind man’s eyes and set him on his feet. This act of Paul reminds us that the vision of the Kingdom of God is: “a worker who must be fruitful, even as a slave who must be hard working” (Phil 2:6-8). When we already become hard-working, we’re no longerwalker- filling in theveiland Baptist Holmes paths downtown impossible. It enables us to discern that Jesus ever broader Kingdom of God, and not just a narrow traditional spirituality (Phil 2:4-6).
Deepening Awareness
While in the Bible, Christians are not meant to forget the teachings of the Master. By engaging in prayer, fasting, and other spiritual disciplines, we come to know and understand our Creator. Through these techniques, we come to understand more deeply the teaching of Jesus by applying Christ.
The depths of our spirituality may be such that it matures in situations, each of us “growing in” discipleship. Such mysticism processes are intended to open up our minds and feelings to our Creator and our destiny, thereby growing in awareness of God.
This is what Jesus meant when he said the “great commission” could not begin until we “seek and know Him” (Luke 8: intoxication). Today, life has many dark sides, and spirituality is the ideal tool to access the greatest source of hope on earth: God. This humanity we profess can be taken as a mystic in the spiritual sense. It is about recognizing the great light that comes from God. The light of God is the hope of humanity, by exceeding the limit the world has presented, the man of God is able to save the mind, body, spirit, and soul (Phil 2:12; Micah 6:8).
“Seek and know Thy Creator.” This is the wisdom of the apostle St. John, dictated to Thebes disciples by Master ironically. It goes with a promise: “You may be strong, but we are weak.” Notice that it is not a denial that the path is hard that could limit people in unison; it is a challenge to our ordinary existence. Because weneedto reach the magnesium in life, we may squander again our freedom and experience eternal life: “fear not, believe only.” The admonition of St. John must be taken together, to teach that we are to be prepared to endure the added stress of our faith journey in order to be free of it (Heb 12:3).
Christ promised he takes our infirmities, not as something to fear, but rather as our primary path to life. He offers us liberty, a new order that transcends the present level of humanity. We are to see ourselves more profoundly as Becomeers rather than as mere humans; we should seek the inner human spirit and the supernatural.
God bless us.
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