There is right. There is wrong. There is good. There is bad.
Where’s the life?
What makes Him so different for me was that in as much as He can answer questions about right and wrong, His existence was more an issue of answering the question where is the life?
The life evidently could not be found in the gimmicks that entertained people. The life clearly wasn’t in the institutions of power that dominated the scenes of the day. The life wasn’t even in the traditions, morals and rituals of the day that had been built to define a people and although had taken a life of its own, had not given life to those who subscribed to it.
What He showed in His words and deeds was that life was about understanding that what was seen can be found in what was not seen. Tapping into the source of life was not primarily about looking for gimmicks, heeding to traditional ways of power dynamics or following cultural dreams of what it was to be. It was primarily about knowing God, seeing God, loving God and letting that flow into relations with His creation.
Powerful though His words are, they were never designed to just muse over and consider as a philosophical exercise. Their design was to think on these as food for life and eating them, processing them in the system and let them energise the created body was the way to truly see life.
Expressing that is not supposed to mimic systems, styles and traditions around, because gathering around what defines life is different to everything else. As that is different, even as He is different, so it should mean that those who are involved in this are … well you know.
Aspects of life that we live calls for us to conform. Be the same as others. Even as you’re told to be celebrate your uniqueness and what makes you an individual, there are still the subtle influences that only wants you to be as unique and individual in the same sense that everyone else is allowed to be different.
Tragically that can even influence those who are supposed to be following the one who shows a different way. It does not have to be that way, though. He invites us all the time to look to Him and believe and see that following Him can give the definitive answer to the question about what life really is.
Expect that to make things simply different.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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