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The Great Dichotomy, Humility vs. Responsibility. Being Jesus (Part IX)
Who me? Good, well of course I AM...(any alarm bells going off?)
Humility vs. Responsibility; The Great Dichotomy of:
Being Jesus (Part IX)
As an example of his humility I like to refer to a purported response of Jesus quoted by one of the Gospel authors: “Why call me good? Only God is good.”
The reason I like to quote it is that it sets the stage for anyone who is willing to look at the possibility of something else Jesus said: “Anyone who believes in me will do the very same things you’ve seen me do.” Which, in context, are the seeming “supernatural” stuff such as turning water into wine; walking on water; healing myriad diseases; giving sight to somebody blind (even if they were born that way) and so on.
Set the stage, how? What Jesus also said was that he didn’t perform any of these “miracles,” but rather, the SPIRIT-PARENT in him, did them.
The amazing (to me, at least) thing about that part of the equation of you or I being Jesus is, in that, lies the fact that “we” simply have no business taking any credit for a “miraculous (or any other kind of) ministry.” If we attain such heights of actually being and doing what he said we would be and do (IF we believe enough) the words between the immediately foregoing parens is an accurate translation from the original language.
Brad and Ryan have read this several times.
Let’s underscore it: literally believe enough, and then we will not tout “our” ministry, but rather when ministry happens and somebody says “we” did it, we will quickly and emphatically deny that “we” did anything …the very same SPIRIT-PARENT that did the works Jesus was famous for, did it, not I.
Have we been clear here? No hubris in this question at all. If it is clear it simply means that you are not mired in the fuzzy thoughts held by the religious about Jesus, because from his own mouth HE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING.
Okay, that’s the humility part of the dichotomy, now onto the responsibility of being Jesus.
I’m being guided to be succinctly simple. The responsibility is to moment by moment do only what our SPIRIT-PARENT is directing us to do. That’s being Jesus (period).