he showed me that i must live the religion of himself rather than the religion about himself.
and that despite existing in a world that is sometimes insane, that I should be in it with God rather than to conform to the madness. this leaves me in a bind at times because I can not stand some of the ways people exist in this world. the utter vanity of some of the things people think is important in their delusions of "duty" to serve the commands of men that make empty the laws of God is not pleasing to me at all.
so truly I experience that we as humans suffer in this world, even Jesus did, but he did it manfully as a spiritually mature person and so i must grow up into the higher life of God who never leaves us. and God being here and showing the simple nature of himself, that he loves his children, shows me what is important and what is not.
to try to prove my worth to God would be to try to buy his love and it is not something I wish to do nor do I think true love desires that i must attain to some state of being to be loved by God. but i know God wants me to be as close and like him as I can be because it is good and he deserves the same free love that he gives to me. it is simply better that we be together than we be separated one from another.
Jesus Christ did not command anything that he himself did not live and this paints a much greater and clearer picture of God and his heart. I could not know God if I did not know Gods humanity. there can be no relation with God if he himself is not a personality, for I too am made in his image and am a personality.
Jesus lived the perfect human life in earth and he showed true faith, hope, and love to God his Father, which flowed outwardly from him to all because the Trinity is the source of everlasting love. he boldly proclaimed what got him killed - the fact that he is the Son of God. and he made us equal to him if we wish it, he even asked his Father such and he believed it to be true which is why he said: "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God."
and I think he expects us all to ascend and he counts us as himself, thus we are called "the body of Christ" and he knows who is capable of doing such aka our Father. for the divinity of the Son delivers us to the divinity of the Father. but we must truly die and it is God who will raise us from the dead. because Jesus said that:
John 2:19 (YLT)
Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'
"destroy this sanctuary" means sinful men destroy Gods temple. but God who is the Trinity raises it up because that is what he means when he said "and in three days I will raise it up."
in like manner does revelation explain the same spiritual process of john 2:19:
Rev 14:11-13 (YLT)
and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name. Here is endurance of the saints: here are those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.' And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'
