Daily writing prompt

How have your political views changed over time?

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Optimize God’s mercy and grace in your life. (James 4:6) Wake up to God’s spiritual search optimization. (Matthew 6:33)

Optimize your relationship with God. (James 4:8)
Optimize your relationship God the Father. (John 4:23)
Optimize your relationship with Jesus, God the Son. (1 John 1:3)
Optimize your relationship with God the Holy Spirit. (Romans 8:14)
Optimize the way you do church. (1 Corinthians 14:26)
Optimize the fruit of the Spirit in your life. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Optimize the gifts of the Spirit in your life. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11)
Optimize your ability to show mercy to all people. (Luke 6:35-36)

Christians have been trained to see Jesus as the Tree of Knowledge — as a religious figure to study, analyze, and learn information about. However, we need to see Jesus as the Tree of Life — as God in human flesh who we can develop a moment-by-moment intimate heart-to-heart relationship with.

We need to stop trying to understand and figure Jesus out. He’s beyond our human understanding. Instead, we need to allow Jesus to optimize who He has made us to be. Let Him straighten out and transform your heart and mind throughout each day. (Romans 12:2)

Ever since I was a child, I have found the one-man lecture method of having church to be a distraction from my focusing on the actual presence of Jesus. However, Spirit-led open sharing based on Romans 8:14 and 1 Corinthians 14:26 always makes me intensely aware that Jesus is present and active in the gathering.

Lifeless religion clearly demonstrates that the Tree of Knowledge doesn’t produce the life of God and the fruit of the Spirit. The Tree of Life is an invitation to experience the life of God working in and through you day and night. The Tree of Knowledge is an attempt to explain, analyze, and trivialize the life of God.

Sermon sitters who are Sunday hearers only (James 1:22) are always learning but never able to come to a personal heart-to-heart knowledge of the truth (2 Timothy 3:7) which is the living resurrected Jesus Christ. (John 14:6) They are trusting in the Tree of Knowledge but overlooking the Tree of Life. (Revelation 2:7) They tend to ignore the direct inner leadership of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:14) — “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)

Far too many Christians would rather hear a religious talk about Jesus instead of optimizing their personal experiencing of His presence. 2,000 years ago, religious infrastructure had Jesus, God the Son, crucified. Today religious infrastructure hinders the free movement of God the Holy Spirit.

The job of a minister is to get people to minister to one another, not to do all the ministry himself. (Ephesians 4:11-12) The job of a preacher is to get people preaching and testifying about the risen Jesus, not to make them lifetime Sunday morning spectators.