Of Christ Consciousness

After reading some segments of Deepak Chopra’s book the Third Jesus, I can hear the other side of this with loud screams of LIAR! I do not think this is a lie, but I feel that throughout history humanity has adapted Jesus to fit the times and desires of what they wish to control. What is it most that we wish to control but our own lives.
I have studied the Bible in times past as ardent student of theology, and even as a child. When I was young I received pins and recognition for bible verse memorizations. There was a certain comfort in the recognition from others that I knew many Bible verses. This continued through my adolescent and young adult years. I felt that my memory was a gift and to be used as such was to memorize the Bible. This was good because throughout the day situations would arise that would point out truths or things I had learned. This was not enough, however, to fill the insatiable thirst I had for knowledge and truth.
I began to question inwardly to myself while at the same time memories surfaced of knowledge I had already. I began to see that the Jesus I sought after was the Jesus in me or rather the Christ that Spirit seeks to show in all people.
The Jesus that walked then and the Jesus that churches seek to present to mankind is a collection of many ideas, thoughts, teachings that man thought he should be now. It is not a work that would involve “things I must not do” to enter the Kingdom of heaven. It is in truth things we do need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven. As the kingdom of heaven is here among us and in us, the only thing we are required to do is let go. This means letting go of outcomes, letting go of anticipated desires, letting go of the control.

~ by raykil on March 6, 2008.