Many
times I've been asked that question, mostly silently between the
flowers and lines of the conversation. It's a tough one indeed…
Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good?No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?” Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. “And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. “But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” Mat 19:16-30
Yeah,
poor guy, and poor Peter! On the account of the rich guy – its not
that easy to sell everything, if you're the landlord. You have fields
and servants who depend on you. You can't just Elisha on them!! The
reason why money is the source of Evil 1Ti 6:10 is that if you start
loving it, you also start amending your beliefs and thoughts, just
like a drug addict raises his daily dosage. Bit by bit you crave
more, 'til you're ready to wager your own granny to get a new fix!
It's like the little boy in the candy shop, who has no money to buy
the stuff he likes, and resorts to stealing it. You can always find
good excuses why its happening, but it always starts in your heart –
you have to agree with those statements first, then they become
reality…
The
same is true about becoming Christian. The reason, it is so hard to
become one, is not, that it is impossible to live according to Mat
5-7 the Sermon of the Mount, which is the Hallmark of Christianity.
It's because, people don't agree with it, in their hearts. They don't
agree, because, its expensive. Its expensive to be 'poor in spirit';
mourn openly; to be meek; to thirst for righteousness; to be merciful
and pure of heart; to be peacemakers, yet not compromising your
values. What is this? The bio of a Paladin Avatar in some kind of
RPG!! Who
in its right mind is able to follow all that,.. so coming back to the
rich guy, selling everything seems like a walk in the park, although
they are one and the same. If you value something, you value it with
everything you got, not with just a faint smile and tweet you can rub
off the other day or even forget. How do you value your first kiss?
You do remember it, don't you! The same is about becoming Christian.
It is as intimate and unfathomable as your first kiss. You crave so
much more, and then its gone, maybe even with the one who you gave it
to, but the memory still stays on.
The
first thing about becoming Christian, is to develop the ability to
remain silent or to 'wash your face' as Jesus puts it when talking
about, how to be fasting. The problem with faith or anything, are
selfies. In serious matters, people become so serious about it, that
it starts feeling so well refined and rehearsed, that its more of a
play not to be taken seriously!! You must find your equilibrium
between seriousness and laid back. If you start doing things, so
people notice you doing them to get the head-pat or like or something
else, you're no longer a Christian, but a Pharisee… Only you can
value what you do and what you are, but in the end it can lift you up
or destroy everything. Being able to remain silent, to contemplate
before taking action or even saying something, can be the difference
between success and failure. If you can't learn it any other way,
play MTG or chess and you understand how thinking in short time
notice is kind of a stretch… It needs to be trained, before you're
able to think fast and accurate. First you must master thinking
slowly, or at all!! Later you can disregard all what's said and stop
thinking to let your gut do it for you. But that only works if you
have trained your gut first. Bruce Lee has said:
“I'm not worried about a man who has done 1000 techniques but once; I'm worried about the man, who has done one technique a thousand times.”
It
doesn't speak of much value, when you opt 1000 things, although if
you could master them at the same time, it would be a worthy feat
marveling of Godliness, the failure to do so is of epic proportions
as well. How much effort you put into something, spells out, how much
it will give out. Lets take prayer for instance, because people don't
get answers to the point there they compared it to talking to a
gallon jar of milk and then complimenting it, then something positive
happens in your life. How much did you pray for something? How long
did you wait? How did you act, while you're awaiting? “How did you
thing about God and the Prayer you had? What there you envisioning
about the prayer, and what words there you using? Now replace God
with the image of your no.1 waifu you would smah and do it again!
Do
you treat God with the same reverence as your Nr.1 waifu, who was
created by a mortal man – but you still expect a worthy answer.
Would a real ship answer you, if he/she knows you're not seriously
invested.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1Cor 13:1-11
Know
yourself why you follow God, and want your prayer answered, as you
would know, why you love your waifu and want to ship her. Nothing
ventured, nothing gained. When I became interested in Jesus, I
started to go to the Sunday School always arriving 2 hours prior if
possible so I could simply breathe the atmosphere in. I read the
Bible thrice; hanged on any words, what dropped out of the mouths of
the preachers as though it there pure silver; gold; platinum…
Simply put, I was like a groupie. Like said at Yuri on Ice “That
look makes even men pregnant” Because that dissonance between Agape
and Eros,
is the reason why Christians keep
failing. While you need more Agape, to understand Christianity, you
can't complete and have a point without Eros. Its like Victor
choosing to tutor Yuri sacrificing everything for that cause. I don't
mind about the gayness of the show, it still has a worthy point to
me. I stopped watching the label of things after reading Nietzsche's
“Thus spoke Zarathustra” which saved my faith in Christ,
otherwise I would have given up. If you invest yourself into
Christendom, you can become so meta, that other people wont even know
what your talking about, because its no longer English. Forgetting
about your past, just because you wanna look more smart; and mature,
and because it is forbidden to look back when you have put your hand
on the plow:
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. “For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; “and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. “He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” Mat 10:27-39
Its
again about investment, also about honesty. If you are true about
something, it shouldn't be too hard to admit it to yourself and to
your loved ones – even to the point they disavow you. If you feel
ashamed about your beliefs, because those you respect don't respect
it back, then do you even like those beliefs truly or your friends.
That's why should think first in silence, before you say anything.
People might be remembering your quotes. Or like Johnny storm told to
the Thing: “You're
huge and orange, people might notice!”
then they had to explain him, why he can't tag along, while they are
fixing their past. Also let's remember how Johnny forgot that same
advice with himself, by giving fire to the ape-men!! That was epic
priceless… There is something unsettling and obnoxious, then
somebody is himself, and truly follows Christ. You can immediately
see the difference, like with the taste of salt.
Some
of my best prayers have been taken time over a year or longer… I
don't pray them on public nor do I shout out, what I got this date or
that occasion. Why should you reveal your sex positions with your
ship – wouldn't it upset him/her? Prayer and faith is as intimate
as that. Also remember, repetition is important. What you repeat
shall define you, like water oozing through rock. A
good Christian must be like Water, if to quote Bruce Lee again,
although he was talking about Jeet kune do. Formless and tasteless,
able to become every form and nature. It's our memes and stray
puppets we invent, what become our idols, and pervert our true faith.
Those who seek, always find an answer, even though, it might not be
the same answer, they there expecting. Mary sure as Hell wasn't
expecting to get pregnant in the Holy Spirit to have Jesus Christ; to
see Him grow up and then loose Him to the Cross! Yet she accepted it.
Think of it the next time you say God is unreasonable and don't
answer you prayers or that you don't get anything for it. Do you even
want it, if such things could be on the menu? Who wants to opt
between eating food on human shit or on bull shit? Eze 4:1-11 to show
off that the peoples ways are wicked and it will be their undoing?
Any takers? Because that's the essence of Christianity for you. You
make your food on bullshit, while everybody is watching, and can't
have a say but rather turn the other cheek, then people are scolding
you about it!!
Now,
who wants to become Christian – sees a boatload of people reciting:
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