The problem with walking with Jesus, it is our personal walk and insight.
Truth and the Holy Spirit moves you, so it is important to take the good from everything you hear and understand we all stand where we are for definitive reasons.
The difficulty when listening to arguments, we tend to interpret the words based on our emotional experience.
It is true Jesus lays a dream at our feet, love, acceptance, eternal life, righteousness, justice, truth, becoming a full complete rounded person. But the person to walk in these realities needs to accept failure of ourselves, that everything we try and do is tainted by the origin in our hearts without communion with the Lord.
The world is full of successful people, wealth, power, influence, to which we often want to aspire to. It is therefore easy for preachers to suggest Jesus is actually preaching the same ideas, yet is actually talking about reality within our hearts and the need to be driven by love. The whole gospel is saying we can only live in righteousness through love, love given by Jesus through the cross. Unfortunately this walk is about failure and exalting the work of Jesus in us.
Ofcourse without accepting failure, Jesus's walk is not possible in our hearts. If you cannot see the need to change but only positively project your desires as if they are Gods desire for you, the Lord does not dwell within you. It is merely justifying and loving the world, rather than the kingdom of heaven.
I know for many the idea of failure has become so bad, it is thought of as judgementalism, rather than the truth.
Too many have sold out their faith for the fantasy of rewards here on earth, rather than finding reality from the bottom of our hearts. Jesus loves you so deeply, if you cannot bow the knee to Him, you have fallen for pride and self righteousness.
Truth and the Holy Spirit moves you, so it is important to take the good from everything you hear and understand we all stand where we are for definitive reasons.
The difficulty when listening to arguments, we tend to interpret the words based on our emotional experience.
It is true Jesus lays a dream at our feet, love, acceptance, eternal life, righteousness, justice, truth, becoming a full complete rounded person. But the person to walk in these realities needs to accept failure of ourselves, that everything we try and do is tainted by the origin in our hearts without communion with the Lord.
The world is full of successful people, wealth, power, influence, to which we often want to aspire to. It is therefore easy for preachers to suggest Jesus is actually preaching the same ideas, yet is actually talking about reality within our hearts and the need to be driven by love. The whole gospel is saying we can only live in righteousness through love, love given by Jesus through the cross. Unfortunately this walk is about failure and exalting the work of Jesus in us.
Ofcourse without accepting failure, Jesus's walk is not possible in our hearts. If you cannot see the need to change but only positively project your desires as if they are Gods desire for you, the Lord does not dwell within you. It is merely justifying and loving the world, rather than the kingdom of heaven.
I know for many the idea of failure has become so bad, it is thought of as judgementalism, rather than the truth.
Too many have sold out their faith for the fantasy of rewards here on earth, rather than finding reality from the bottom of our hearts. Jesus loves you so deeply, if you cannot bow the knee to Him, you have fallen for pride and self righteousness.