Is Jesus More Than a Stranger to You?
Let Jesus be more than a stranger. Like anyone who is famous, people know a lot of information about Jesus. Much of His life is common knowledge. Most preachers share something about Jesus in their sermons. Church creeds that many people have memorized list fact after fact about Him. Bibles overflow with many details about Christ’s life. Yet for many people, even for multitudes of faithful church attendees, Jesus remains a stranger. Many people today who know a lot about Jesus don’t actually know Him. They lack an ongoing, intimate, heart-to-heart relationship with Him.
Whatever you plant, nurture, cultivate, and fertilize in your mind and heart will sprout, bud, bloom, and bear fruit. Refuse to sow damaging thoughts, feelings, and desires that will grow to dominate and destroy your inner seedbed. Weed out all of the bad seeds that steal your peace. The Bible is powerful farm equipment. Devour it daily so it can plow and cultivate your heart and continually grow God’s living Word — the risen Jesus Christ — inside of you. “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
How did Jesus become a stranger to so many Christians? Over time Christianity was formalized into an audience of passive Sunday morning religious spectators that abandoned the presence and demonstrations of the risen Jesus.
Christians don’t need more religion or more ritual. We need more revelation. We need the eyes of our heart opened. Open your heart to the risen Jesus. An open Bible won’t help a closed heart.
It’s not the presence of preacher, pastor, or pulpit that matters. It’s the presence and direct Headship of the risen Jesus. Have you discovered the daily joy and happiness of interacting with Jesus Christ? I let Jesus continually cultivate happiness in my seedbed!
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