LIFE FROM HIS DEATH AND LIFE
08/01/23 10:01
“Jesus’s death was a historical breakthrough, and it is no accident that Christians date history around his life. Afterward, we could never quite see things in the same way. The “virus” of the gospel was forever released into human history, archetypally pictured as blood flowing from the crucified. It was only a minority of Christians who ever got the point, however. Still, the toothpaste cannot be put back into the tube; the movement of grace cannot be reversed.” (1)
FLOW OF LIFE
Jesus stunned people by saying, ‘Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you.’ This means to live incarnated is to be alive in spirit and life. To live in externalities is to have little to offer to others as genuine spiritual life. It should be clear by now, that the world needs more than religion.
‘Blood flowing from the crucified’ is what Jesus means by ‘I am the vine and you are the branches’ and what Paul means by ‘Christ our life’. It’s what John means by ‘Christ come in our flesh’ and it’s the fruit of the Spirit as you. Again it’s what Jesus means by ‘Those who eat me will live because of me’ and what we are reminding ourselves of at the Eucharist. Reminding us that our life now is participating in God in Christ because we are in Him and He is in us (John 14.20).
ONENESS WITH CHRIST
To live in Christ’s life is not to live towards Christ. It’s to live one with Christ in union with His person by the One Spirit. Thus in Him we are made one with God, one with ourselves and one with others. Richard Rohr writes, “You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.” It’s called being born again.
(1)Rohr, Richard . The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Chaos, Reorder (p. 129). Franciscan Media. Kindle Edition.
FLOW OF LIFE
Jesus stunned people by saying, ‘Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you.’ This means to live incarnated is to be alive in spirit and life. To live in externalities is to have little to offer to others as genuine spiritual life. It should be clear by now, that the world needs more than religion.
‘Blood flowing from the crucified’ is what Jesus means by ‘I am the vine and you are the branches’ and what Paul means by ‘Christ our life’. It’s what John means by ‘Christ come in our flesh’ and it’s the fruit of the Spirit as you. Again it’s what Jesus means by ‘Those who eat me will live because of me’ and what we are reminding ourselves of at the Eucharist. Reminding us that our life now is participating in God in Christ because we are in Him and He is in us (John 14.20).
ONENESS WITH CHRIST
To live in Christ’s life is not to live towards Christ. It’s to live one with Christ in union with His person by the One Spirit. Thus in Him we are made one with God, one with ourselves and one with others. Richard Rohr writes, “You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.” It’s called being born again.
(1)Rohr, Richard . The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Chaos, Reorder (p. 129). Franciscan Media. Kindle Edition.
