ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
31/05/24 12:36
M Scott Peck wrote The Road Less Travelled. It’s about those who commit to truth instead of lolling about in their personal illusions. You may know people who walk in darkness because they prefer it that way. They like to snoose in their personal opiate. Others invent their own truth and define the whole world as wrong. Some are committed to lies because it serve their interests. Others a loyal to Barrabas because they are controlled by the one ring.
Others walk in a haze because they are innately undiscerning or because they re contained in a faith that is a 'dark glass.' Others stumble because they have adopted confusion as their religion. Confusion because their teaching posits a false gospel and a false christ.
DISCIPLES OF WHOM?
People may not be living fullness or walking in the light just because they are your friends and nice people. Sincere people who desire to serve God can be constrained by false doctrine because they have been misled by those who propagate untruth as a career. It makes a big difference to know who you are in Christ. Knowing that you originated in God is more beneficial to the self than thinking that you originated in sin. I read a book once entitled ‘Original Blessing.’ Mathew Fox emphasised our origins in God. Three years ago I read an excellent compilation entitled, ‘Trinitarian Conversations.’ This work emphasised the fact that human beings, the sons and daughters of God were birthed into existence as a result of the trinitarian desire to share their joy with beings like themselves – the sons of God.*
You were conceived in God and reborn as a real self in the Christ of God.
HOLINESS IS HOLISTIC
You may have become accustomed to describing yourself as a sinner. True, we all sin but since the cross we are not sinners by identity. In Jesus Christ we have been joined to our origins in God and united to our destiny in Christ – united to grow into our sonship as sons and daughters of God to bring joy to Father and glory to ourselves by becoming our true selves. True Selves are people who are alive in Kingdom agency. A sad thing about some very active Christians is that they are not alive in their spirit.
THE TRUTH OF YOUR UNION
We are not at liberty to just make a gospel up. Neither are we free to adopt an amended gospel because we think we have some extrabiblical source of revelation. Any gospel other than that of Jesus and Paul and the apostles comes from the pit. It depletes us of life and cripples our spirit.
NONE GRASPERS
John Crowder quotes this truth from Francois Du Tout. “Everyone who realizes their association in Him, convinced that He is their original life and that His name defines them. He endorses the fact that we are indeed His offspring, begotten of Him” (John 1:12). The word often translated, to receive, lambano, means to comprehend, grasp, to identify with. This word suggests that even though He came to His own, there are those who do not grasp their true origin revealed in Him, and like the many Pharisees they behave like children of a foreign father, the father of lies (John 8:44).” There are Christians who prefer darkness rather than light.
KNOW WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST
Neither God’s legitimate fatherhood of man nor His ownership is in question; man’s indifference to his true origin is the problem. This is what the Gospel addresses with utmost clarity in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus has come to introduce man to himself again.” (1) You will know yourself in Christ your life. But never in christ a lie.
KNOWING CHRIST. KNOWING YOU
You will know yourself in Christ. Possibly not in ‘Christianity’ and certainly not in the law. A legalised Jesus is a false christ and a law-defined ‘father’ is not the God of Jesus or the Christian Church. The trinity is who God is – three persons, one God. Jesus Christ reveals who Father is and He also reveals who you are. Look into His Face. Seek His Face and you will know Jesus and come to see and know your real self. You will pass on life – not just religion.
* There’s an analogy here in the marriage relationship. The joy of a good marriage can result in the conception and birth of new persons into the world.
(1) Crowder, John. Cosmos Reborn : Happy Theology on the New Creation . Sons of Thunder Ministries & Publications - Digital version by Ten10 Ebooks. Kindle Edition.
