Learning From Others, Seeking The Way
An Emerging Viewpoint
The Bible moves us from sacred place (why the temple had to go) or sacred action (why the law had to be relativized) or mental belief systems (why Jesus had no prerequisites in this regard) to time itself as sacred time. “I am with you always, yes, to the very end of time” is the last verse of Matthew’s Gospel (28: 20).
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It’s possible to resist the very growth and change and expanding consciousness that God desires for you by appealing to your religious convictions.
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Heavenly, Father, in you I live and move and have my being: I humbly pray you so to guide and govern me by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of my life I may not forget you, but may remember that I am ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.†
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But according to Jesus, God is interested in something else. How open are you to what Spirit is doing in this moment? How receptive is your heart to a fresh word about grace? Are you hungry to learn, to grow, to be transformed? Do you want to see things in a new way?
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We Christians are such a strange religion! We worship this naked, bleeding loser, crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem, but we always want to be winners, powerful, and on top ourselves… at least until we learn to love the little things and the so-called little people, and then we often see they are not little at all, but better images of the soul.
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If you have never experienced human love, it will be very hard for you to access God as Love. If you have never let God love you, you will not know how to love humanly in the deepest way. Of course, grace can overcome both of these limitations.
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Don’t believe your faith unless you’ve doubted it, unless you’ve woken up a few mornings in the middle of your life questioning, “I’m not sure I agree with this at all. I’d like to jump ship. Staying in this church, this relationship, this career, feels more problematic to me than leaving.”
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We know God by loving God. And I think that it is actually more important to know that we love God than to know that God loves us; although the two movements are finally the same. At the end of our lives of faith, the sum total of all of our knowing about God is that God knows us—and God’s knowing is perfect receiving—like a mirror.
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“Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America ‘you are too arrogant, and if you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name. Be still and know that I’m God.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Only a die-hard Republican can mock a Democrat. Only a true liberal can dishonor a conservative. Only a passionate Lutheran can turn a Methodist into his scapegoat. Only a patriotic American can insult a Mexican. But a Christian—a person who is filled with the agape love of Jesus and transformed by His indwelling presence—cannot do any of those things.
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Learning From Others, Seeking The Way 