Some words for ponderation:
If the essence of our spirituality lies in a relationship with God, I suppose we should ask ourselves who God is. I would like to believe God is completely good, completely kind and forgiving, and it is we who aren’t all that good and have no idea what goodness is in the first place. I realize that sounds like humanity-bashing, and I don’t mean to bash humanity, but when I watch the news it makes me wish deep down for another time and place that has a king who is good, and a people who love and care about one another and are easy to trust, and a news channel that isn’t always trying to stir up a fight so they can cover a fight. And Jesus helps me believe such a time and place might exist. I realize a lot of people don’t like Jesus, or just ignore Him or have no use for Him, but I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Ghandi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn’t anything like the real Jesus at all.—Searching For God Knows What
I am currently reading this book. It is the type of book my wife would read I think. You see she doesn't like books that much, often finds them a bit of an effort to work through. This one is a bit different tho' it is simply written and actually catches you up in this guy's journey into the answers to questions a lot of us have.
I think 3 of those essential questions are broached in this little excerpt. Is there a God? If there is what is he like? Was Jesus that God or just some crazy dude?
These are questions that our world either distracts us enough to never ask in a life time or most certainly works wholeheartedly to give numerous other answers to the ones that Donald Miller (author of this book) comes to. Jesus was either "liar, lunatic or Lord" he never wanted to just be the nice guy that people enjoy as a peripheral part of their self-invented spirituality. Big thing is this: If He is Lord than He will obviously have somethiong to say about our opinion towards His lordship!
What's yours?
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