Hey there, brothers and sisters in faith,
Recently I have prayed to Jesus/God, and he has given me advice. But I don't know if what he's told me can really be considered 'Christian'. I would like to know what you guys think of it.
All my life, I have always had many fears, from failing for a test in school, to losing my girlfriend in a relationship to the fear of going to hell when I die.
When I recently asked Jesus for help with this, he told me that I "Bound myself to the world far too much". He told me that I should (and this might sound strange) "Die for all that is, but God." When I heard those words, an intense feeling of freedom overwhelmed me. A sense that everything is going to be okay, that I only once or twice experienced in my life. It really felt good and free and divine, but on the other hand, it sounds so conflicting with everything I've known so far.
Jesus literally told me to put him(God) at first place and to find only him important. Loved ones, career and everything else, he told me not to care (and therefore worry) about. Because God will never leave me.
But because I'm also deadly afraid of not measuring up to biblical rules and being thrown in Hell, Jesus also told me not to bind myself to the idea of Hell, to the Bible and even to the 'name' of God or the images that I have of Jesus. Though he did tell me to take the Bible and the religious rules very seriously. "Worshipping those rules and images of me", he said "Is idolatry". Jesus told me to use his name, but only to worship that which is 'behind' the name, that which we refer to as God, but is inconceivable to the human mind.
So to sum it up, God/Jesus told my to find ONLY him important; Not his creations, not his rules and not his name. ONLY him.
I feel this to be true on the deepest imaginable level. I feel it in my core to be correct. It really is the word of God.
Yet still, this idea of "Dying to all but God" seems somewhat foreign to me. What do you guys think about my experience with God?
Greets, and much thanks in advance,
Kees
Recently I have prayed to Jesus/God, and he has given me advice. But I don't know if what he's told me can really be considered 'Christian'. I would like to know what you guys think of it.
All my life, I have always had many fears, from failing for a test in school, to losing my girlfriend in a relationship to the fear of going to hell when I die.
When I recently asked Jesus for help with this, he told me that I "Bound myself to the world far too much". He told me that I should (and this might sound strange) "Die for all that is, but God." When I heard those words, an intense feeling of freedom overwhelmed me. A sense that everything is going to be okay, that I only once or twice experienced in my life. It really felt good and free and divine, but on the other hand, it sounds so conflicting with everything I've known so far.
Jesus literally told me to put him(God) at first place and to find only him important. Loved ones, career and everything else, he told me not to care (and therefore worry) about. Because God will never leave me.
But because I'm also deadly afraid of not measuring up to biblical rules and being thrown in Hell, Jesus also told me not to bind myself to the idea of Hell, to the Bible and even to the 'name' of God or the images that I have of Jesus. Though he did tell me to take the Bible and the religious rules very seriously. "Worshipping those rules and images of me", he said "Is idolatry". Jesus told me to use his name, but only to worship that which is 'behind' the name, that which we refer to as God, but is inconceivable to the human mind.
So to sum it up, God/Jesus told my to find ONLY him important; Not his creations, not his rules and not his name. ONLY him.
I feel this to be true on the deepest imaginable level. I feel it in my core to be correct. It really is the word of God.
Yet still, this idea of "Dying to all but God" seems somewhat foreign to me. What do you guys think about my experience with God?
Greets, and much thanks in advance,
Kees
