The Jesus I follow is not the one of history or traditions anymore. Dr. Josimar Salum
The Bible is not a book of "faith" only but of science, knowledge and of practical things in our lives. The whole world see the Bible, the book of Christians. I see the Bible the written word of my Lord Jesus, my Living God. I see the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as ONE, THE GREAT I AM very, very close to me.
We usually call the Bible a book of faith only, but this "faith" is more about religion than natural and normal life with God.
As I see today I don't have a religion, I don't practice a religion! I follow Jesus, a Person. The devotion I have, the prayers I pray, the songs I sing, the preaching I share are not a practice of the Christian religion for me! Not anymore! Equally essential are the work In all areas and the daily life itself with all dynamics involved, everything in practice, the every day life, prayers and life as normal, they are all a journey with Jesus, combined, entwined!
I see my brothers and sisters, believers in Jesus, as His Body everywhere and not limited to a church, a building, a organization. I don’t see them anymore in sheepfolds. I see myself walking in the streets and roads of today like when Jesus did walk with His disciples in the streets and roads of Israel, those days, so glorious as today.
I don't separate my life as Christian from the secular! Everything I do I do for the Lord. Not with a religious conscience, but as natural as to breathe. It is about who I am and not what I do. What I do is just the fruit of who I am.
Jesus, fill me with your unquenchable Love like you are fully Love and let me be who you are and think like you do and talk like you talk, yes, yes, be just like you!
Yes, Yes! I consecrate my life to Jesus and keep my heart from contamination of hatred, of egoism, and all of fleshly works. But not as an ritualistic exercise, but an act of surrender to His will. It doesn't work as if I decide to do good and then I do, instead it is as I surrender in Him and abandon myself in Him, His Life flows like a river through me.
I consecrate myself to Him, but this is not a result of trying to follow rules, to match a "to do list" neither a "not to do list" made by men, by religious leaders or by myself, even if they were rules extracted from Scriptures.
I walk in Spirit, the Spirit of Christ and this intimacy with Him is enough to be able to let me walk with Jesus and love others like He does. It is a supernatural oneness to just see Him loving others through me. It is not anymore even perceived as me but only Him.
I follow Jesus as a natural fruit of my relationship with Jesus. It is about knowing Him, believing Him, serving Him and others. In simple words, loving Jesus and my neighbors! There is not serving Jesus if I don’t serve my family, my friends and to as many people as I can.
Then I read the Scriptures of God to be testified about the Living Word, about Jesus Himself I have already met, the One who lives with me! In this way the Scriptures of God have a brilliant significance and meaning for me! They became alive to reveal the Person of Jesus. This person that I abide in Him and He in me!
Jesus is Health, Salvation, Joy, Hope, Deliverance, Healing, not in "spiritual" matters only, but for the soul, the body, for everything in me, for my business life, for my educational life, for my entertainments, for life in a whole, actually even more for life elsewhere then when I am in church, it is related to practical ways and not as if prayers were magic words that I pronounce.
What Jesus says and it is written about Him and Life in general in the Scriptures have practical meanings for me not to be followed religiously, but naturally. It is a little hard to explain how I see when you see yourself following Jesus as your religion. I have broken that box. I would say only that instead of being rules and laws they became instructions, guidance, corrections, exhortations, signs and wisdom for me. Not impositions anymore or things that I have to desperate try to do. If not! I would be punished.
It is like to be a little leaf that the wind have made it rest upon the waters of a river and the waters carry that leaf as they wish! This is the estate I call complete surrender that I earnestly desire to remain in it forever.
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