It’s All True…

It’s All True…

How do we know something is real – by our own experience? How does the Bible come to life and the Word of God have breath? We see ourselves in the stories? When our life can be seen in the Word of God the Word is alive?

The experience we have is our own and no one can take it and no one can live it for us. It is through discipline that we begin to see ourselves our life in the pages of the Bible and when we pray those Words in, God manifest right before our eyes. He becomes real and He comes to us, alive in all aspects of life.

Are the first four paragraphs of  The Gospel According to Matthew about identity? If a person doesn’t know their own Christ identity, then it could easily be about how Jesus attained His identity in God, had His identity announced in community and then was tempted to give it up. Who else has had this experience? Probably, upwards of 95% of the people reading this, if not a full 100% of the people reading this. You don’t believe what you just read. Even though it has never been challenged, nor has it has ever been viewed in that Light before. There has never been enough prayer and enough discipline to  prove this idea wrong.

It is our experience in Christ that matters. God doesn’t want us living through culture.  Jesus Christ is counter-culture. God does not want us to get our identity from culture, which is where a vast majority of people get their identity. Most people allow culture to tell them what is right and what is acceptable. Don’t want to be called a racist or a nazi or a this or a that, While a lot of people even forgo letting their faith be known, when that is the one thing God ask of us. Let it be known and share it with others. When we walk in Christ and share the Good News we are shown favor in His eyes. When we live the life that God intends, for His yoke is light, our days become far easier, filled with joy and the beauty of God can be seen all around us.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. ~Ephesians 1:18-21 NASB95

Who has “eyes of your heart“? We all do, if we believe.

Either the Gospel is the divine Word of God teaching us how to live and how to be a reflection of Him, or it’s nothing more than a historical account of events.