Not about the rules or decorum but Heart and Mind
It wasn’t about sounding or appearing right to the world as much as it was about being right with God
Wasn’t about “that’s the way it’s always been done”, rather, “get used to different”
Not about “do you measure up”, rather knowing you don’t measure up .. at all
He is radical and refreshing
More ancient than time yet always relevant in any age
He loves me in the mess of who I am and what I have done ... or undone
🚫 Not the state religion which a king established where the human priests gated access to the real High Priest
🚫 Where human religious hierarchy banned translation into common language and burnt those who did at the stake
🚫 Which other kings and queens then used as righteous excuse to colonize the world and loot it
🚫 Which false preachers used to divorce people from their culture and make them appear more like themselves outwardly
All these don’t know the tenets of Jesus
And Jesus is nothing like what they made of Him for their own power and greed
As sown, they shall reap, in His time
He ..
Broke barriers and bondages, still breaks
Shocked the religious, still does
Mercy given without Justice compromised
Equalizer for everyone
Equal wages for all and yet perfectly fair
First is last, last is first
Upside down Kingdom principles..
His Kingdom.. not like any established by humans nor needing any humans to build it
Bar raising logic
Wisdom out of this world
A Lord and Master who Serves
Who pays your eternal debt
Because He wants you together forever
This is the Jesus I know and love
And I don't call myself a Christian
Nor a religious person
Nor agnostic
Nor skeptic
Nor a leftist or rightist,
I might be an up-ist (who looks up not left or right ..sorry, that’s a poor joke)
I’m not in a box that you know,
I’m not in any box
I’m a follower of Jesus of Nazareth
