a simple lesson from living a day as an adult in this place we call the world: life is about getting, owning and showing off power. how so? knowledge: we seek education to gain knowledge and someday own that knowledge to turn around and show it off and gain respect. money: we seek money to gain purchasing power and someday own lots of money to turn around and show it off and gain respect. beauty: we seek to work-out and primp our own bodies and appearances to fit into society's idea of beauty so we can flaunt our appearances and gain respect. there seems to be a model here: "do X and get Y" ...what do people need power for? power to feel good about themselves? power to earn love? power to live longer and 'better'? prestige is power in this world. this whole system is designed to put the best on top of a pyramid. it is the way of egypt. it is the way of rome. it is the way of babylon. it is the way of greece. it is the way of america. it is the way of the world. the whole world is functioning on a pyramid scheme. this scheme is designed to put the privileged and powerful few on top and the down and out many on bottom. God wants to screw this all up. God has always wanted to screw this up. Lucifer tried to gain power...he gained damnation. adam decided to act separate from God to gain what God forbid Him. God screwed this all up with Jesus. now Jesus wants you to help Him screw this all up. people are not going to get life with power...people are just going to waste your life seeking which they are going to lose when they die anyway.
so then there is religion. people eventually realize that they are going to die. to try and give their lives some meaning, they turn to religion. but some people turn to religion to gain power...more power. I call this "merit badge spirituality"..."step right up, step right up!! get your eternity card stamped at your local god incorporated...there are agents standing by to train you up in the ways of building a bridge to God through religiosity, performance and lawfulness...God will give you the gift of His power over death through your hard work". FALSE!! This is idolatry. To seek religion to use God is idolatry. to seek religion for the right to go to heaven: idolatry. even to seek religion to seek God is idolatry ...this is to worship selfishness. God does not go by the do "X and get Y" system. people are not going to get to God without Jesus...and Jesus is not defined as "X".
"I came so that you may live, not so that you may die" -Jesus
Jesus screws up this "do X and get Y" system. Jesus wants you to screw this system up too.
Jesus is the only way to get to God. to seek Jesus is to lose yourself...lose all your hopes and desires...lose your pursuit of power and your fortune, your prestige and your external beauty. to seek Jesus is to reject the "do X and get Y" system.
the bible proclaims that Jesus is the only way we can live. Jesus' way is Love. God is Love. Jesus proclaimed to be God. therefore, to Love is to follow Jesus. this is not another law...it is a way of transformation...it is the way to screw up the power system. to follow Jesus is to be with God. to be with God is to live. Jesus is the only way we can live.
God created you to Love you and be loved by you. for Him act any different would be for Him to act contrary to who He is. Jesus once said, "if you are not for me, you are against me." to be for Jesus is to love without and agenda. blind, silly, faithful, foolish to the world, crazy, insane, counter-cultural Love. to do this is not to add Jesus to your shelf of accomplishments, it is to let Jesus destroy your self and provide for you through Love.
this dude named Paul who totally screwed up His life for Jesus wrote about this transformation in 1 Corinthians 1:18-30
18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."[c]
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
26Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him. 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption."Love one another as I have Loved you" -Jesus
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