My Relationship with Jesus
I've been putting off this post a long time. It's been walking around with me for a bout a month now. I just kept convincing myself I didn't have the time, even though I had the time to sit and watch Tv for hours. For me, its always been the goal to have a relationship with God. Yes Jesus was our savior, but we want the big guy to talk to us. I don't think I've heard someone say I got this message from Jesus to do something, it's usually I got the message from God. I've actually never really thought about it twice. To try and establish a reltaionship with Jesus. Why really? There's God. Yes Jesus was the Son, but weren't they the same person? God is a human uniform. So isn't it really, thanking God for sending himself down, and then moving right along to have your relationship with GOD. Maybe I need someone to explain it to me. I just can't really comprehend why we need a relationship with both, when they are in fact the same person.
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I get that feeling sometimes too. I don't have the answers. But what I have learned might be interesting. Yes, Jesus is in fact God's son. He was there though, I think from the begining. Although Jesus is in God's image we need to acknowledge Him too. After all it was Jesus who died that humiliating death on the cross for us. We come to Father only through His Son. Almost feels like a personal body guard for God. I am sure it says it somewhere in the bible about how we can only go to the Father through Jesus. Through accepting His death for us.
Yes, they are one in the same but they are somehow different. When you figure out how to explain this let me know. The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. All one in the same but almost feels like they have a special role in each purpose.
I am sure I make no sense. But I am going to leave this. Someone correct me. I too struggle with this feeling sometimes Erin. You aren't alone. I don't think either of us are alone. Some things are just hard to understand. Maybe we need to ask one of our pastors!! hmmmm...
stop by daughter. let's dish
id love too, well im here right now, maybe when you can actually talk. we should totaly set some time aside.
I always had trouble with people who said Jesus was their best friend. Really? My friendships seem pretty different.
I hope you spend time reading the gospels. God has revealed himself through Jesus. The important word there is "revealed". Out of love for us, God showed us his will to heal us, to be with us, to save us, to take up our afflictions, really, no kidding, in the flesh.
In Isaiah it says that the people living in darkness have seen a great light. We didn't really know what God was like, but with the birth of Jesus, so much has been made clear!
Listen to what the gospel writers record of Jesus, and hear his words addressed to all of us, to you, to your deepest soul. He takes pity on our sickness and heals us. God isn't far away. He is closer than our own hearts.
In this mystery of Who God is, God the Father sends the Word, the Son, in whom all things hold together (Jesus, the obedient Son, the Logos -- another mystery to ponder!). He sends the Spirit, the comforter, who leads us in truth. These three persons (this has a technical, theological meaning) are all distinct and are not "confused", and yet as many a Christian has said, once we think of one person of the Trinity, we are led back to think of the three. It's beauty beyond words.
Think of Jesus' baptism. The Spirit descends on Jesus in the form of a dove, and the Father says, this is my Son, in whom I am well-pleased. We say there is one Godhead, in three persons. (And maybe that's about all we dare say!)
And Jesus has taken on real flesh like you and I have, and out of love voluntarily died, trampling death by death, and raising fallen man with himself. So Christ becomes one with us in our deaths, so that we are with him in his eternal LIFE. (As Paul says, we are baptized into his death, we are baptized into his resurrection.)
Sometimes we say about Jesus becoming man that "what is not assumed is not healed." If there is a pain or evil or suffering that Jesus has not taken on and conquered, then there is not a real victory for us. If death had not been overthrown, we should be afraid. That's why it's essential to know that the incarnation (God the Word born as a baby) is real, not an illusion, not a fable. It is our hope and our joy.
So somehow Christ is really at the centre. It is Jesus who reveals the Father, and it is Jesus who offers us communion with God. God comes to us through Jesus, and we come to God through Jesus. We just must accept him in love, as a person, just as we accept any friend of relative we love. He is at the door of your heart knocking at all times, for you to turn to him in love, so that life is constant growth, a constant turning of our will toward God, away from our own deathly snares of self-will and self-love, so that we are transformed by him. And though he is enthroned in our heart as master and we are his servants, he calls us his friends.
Again everything in the Christian life is a great mystery! Our relationship with God is with our creator, the great physician of souls and the LOVER of mankind, and is deeper than any friendship. But we don't know how it all goes until we step out and God shows us how to do it! He will teach you.
I've taken such bold liberty in giving a sermon here! I just recognized you asking all the kinds of questions I've asked and I wanted to share. I hope it's not worthless.
it was an amazing this to read. Truly inspirational.
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