CHRIST’S VICARIOUS HUMANITY FOR YOU

Should we as Believers decide in our hearts that Christ is not our life the implicit assumption is that religion is our life – which means we are back with dislocated Adam and separated from the oneness that could have been ours in Christ.
 
Some people see pleasing God as living in rigidities. Others admire black and white constructs. Some go for generalised religion. Others are absorbed in forming a contract with God in which they do this so that He will do that. This is at best a bargain and at worst manipulation. A sad case of self-made ‘grace.’ Such ‘graces’ can be made from denominationally defined virtues or virtue signalling. But they are not real grace because they are not real life. Real life is Christ come in our flesh. This is the eucharist lived.
 
DIDN’T FIT THE GRID
 
The Jews rejected Christ as Messiah because He did not fit their preconceived notions and national aspirations. ‘Legalised Christians’ by which we mean those who live from a culture of the law and expressions of ‘the letter’,  may reject the simplicity of Christ our life for similar reasons. They will not have Christ come in their flesh because they have made a religion out of their flesh come in their flesh. Christ our life by incarnation does not fit with any distorted Christian version of ‘entitlement.’ This is a pseudo entitlement constructed with the currency of religion and good works. But it is not grace and it is not alive.
 
BEGINS AT THE HEART OF BEING
 
Nevertheless, they are not without hope. [The Christ] “had been sent to [work] not through the manipulation of social, political or economic power-structures, but by striking beneath them all into the ontological depths of Israel's existence where man, and Israel representing all mankind, had become estranged from God, and there within those ontological depths of human being to forge a bond of union and communion between man and God in himself which can never be undone.” Christ penetrates the depths of the hash of our ideas to reveal His True Self and bring life to our spirit.
 
UNDOES OUR CONFUSION
 
If Christ was able to undo Adam through the most atrocious crime mankind had ever committed against God – the murder of His Son – then Christ can reach into the being of the obstinate and self-entitled who make up His church. Meaning we who compose His Church while denying the fullness of His incarnated life for us and in us are ripe for His salvation. To really be alive, it is a good time to think about dying to our own mindset and a rising to a re-born self in oneness with the mind of Christ and the being of His life as us.