Christians have a tendency to believe that the doings of God is all about us, that Jesus was all about what is in it for us. That may be true of the religion but not so of God. In fact Jesus said just the opposite, it is not about us but about the Father, what He wants and about the good news that He is coming back. Does anyone cheer for Him? Nope, they do what man most always does, and makes it about us and what we will get out of it. Well surprise! We won't get anything unless we make it about the Father first instead of us. We need to learn to stop continually putting ourselves in that "first" position. It's a bad habit we have that we have been paying the price for ever since the Garden.
As I have often stated, man fails to see that our ways are not God's ways (Luke 16:15, James 1:27, Romans 12:2, James 4:4), that 'self' is the opposite of 'others'. Do religious teachers understand and teach the concept of seeing everything through a looking glass? Jesus taught we have everything here backwards, so perhaps those who claim to represent him should use the disclaimer first... look at things in the opposite way to that which comes natural to man.
In other words, people need to forget everything they have been taught by man since birth and even in religion, and instead look at things from God's angle. It is those then that He will reach, but as teachers we must first distinguish between fertile ground and the world of man which is the wayside. God's initial truth is that we see things backwards, that we think contrary to Him. That should be a first lesson. Churches won't often teach it because they have created a religion through the contrary eyes of man which serves the will of man, and diverts truth back towards the world and it's own institutions rather than down the path to God.
The world of man has it backwards and likes to make everything about self. Man needs to reject this notion and see things in the opposite way, which of course means rejecting what the world has taught us and see things in a different light. Jesus said to put the will of God before our own, thus loving all as self. Has Christianity ended up teaching us a gospel according to man or to God? The answer is clear when man comes to realize that the Gentile religion rejected the governance of God that Jesus spoke of for the governance of man over 1700 years ago when it re-joined the world in partnership, seeking wealth and power and building kingdoms of its own. Can this institution be trusted to teach the will and governance/Kingdom of God which it abandoned, or more likely will it focus on the will of man in order to defend it's rebellious actions. Many have been brainwashed to look at it from man's angle. It is not easy to deprogram a human (especially of religious tradition) and many will go as far as defending their church or denomination before even thinking of defending the will of God. The two are not related.
Let's look at it from today's political angles. Any nation's system is built upon the very self centred ideals which we are to repent/change ourselves of. Now that those systems have joined the new global system of Corporatism, it seems the tides are running continuously in the wrong direction. We keep thinking we can change these things ourselves (more egotistical vanity) but that is not what Jesus taught. We can change ourselves to a degree yes, but we have to be willing to turn it over to God to take down the systems of man, and willing to be in allegiance with Him and not the ways of man. It is His Kingdom come and His will be done, isn't it. We are useless at solving our own dilemmas especially when we counteract opposition by acting in the same ways. Let God do His thing. His Kingdom come... not just another one of ours.
©... timothyu
As I have often stated, man fails to see that our ways are not God's ways (Luke 16:15, James 1:27, Romans 12:2, James 4:4), that 'self' is the opposite of 'others'. Do religious teachers understand and teach the concept of seeing everything through a looking glass? Jesus taught we have everything here backwards, so perhaps those who claim to represent him should use the disclaimer first... look at things in the opposite way to that which comes natural to man.
In other words, people need to forget everything they have been taught by man since birth and even in religion, and instead look at things from God's angle. It is those then that He will reach, but as teachers we must first distinguish between fertile ground and the world of man which is the wayside. God's initial truth is that we see things backwards, that we think contrary to Him. That should be a first lesson. Churches won't often teach it because they have created a religion through the contrary eyes of man which serves the will of man, and diverts truth back towards the world and it's own institutions rather than down the path to God.
The world of man has it backwards and likes to make everything about self. Man needs to reject this notion and see things in the opposite way, which of course means rejecting what the world has taught us and see things in a different light. Jesus said to put the will of God before our own, thus loving all as self. Has Christianity ended up teaching us a gospel according to man or to God? The answer is clear when man comes to realize that the Gentile religion rejected the governance of God that Jesus spoke of for the governance of man over 1700 years ago when it re-joined the world in partnership, seeking wealth and power and building kingdoms of its own. Can this institution be trusted to teach the will and governance/Kingdom of God which it abandoned, or more likely will it focus on the will of man in order to defend it's rebellious actions. Many have been brainwashed to look at it from man's angle. It is not easy to deprogram a human (especially of religious tradition) and many will go as far as defending their church or denomination before even thinking of defending the will of God. The two are not related.
Let's look at it from today's political angles. Any nation's system is built upon the very self centred ideals which we are to repent/change ourselves of. Now that those systems have joined the new global system of Corporatism, it seems the tides are running continuously in the wrong direction. We keep thinking we can change these things ourselves (more egotistical vanity) but that is not what Jesus taught. We can change ourselves to a degree yes, but we have to be willing to turn it over to God to take down the systems of man, and willing to be in allegiance with Him and not the ways of man. It is His Kingdom come and His will be done, isn't it. We are useless at solving our own dilemmas especially when we counteract opposition by acting in the same ways. Let God do His thing. His Kingdom come... not just another one of ours.
©... timothyu
