A PERSONAL VIEW
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
I have had a kind of personal disconnect in the last few years with all of the Us against them mentality this world uses to continually separate us from from one another. I can remember the feeling that I would have even as a small child when I was picked for a team in some game looking at those who were on a different team in a different way.
I wanted to win for my team and make sure they lost for theirs. That general sense of mentality has been carried over in all of our lives whenever we join with a group of people in whatever efforts we have and for the most part this is working within the spiritual community at a higher emotional level than ever before in this world.
I remember what happened during the war times of our country during the 60's had terrible conflict socially because of that team mentality being broken. Chaos broke out because there was no real team efforts. Even those who served were alienated from the social structure for many years. The only thing that I had in those years was in seeking the truth...and as I began to dig for that truth; not even really knowing what I was looking for, I began to uncover even more lies and manipulations in areas that I had always before held as standards of this country and of the church that I had based my life upon.
If I was to find this truth then I would have to start with the only place where the truth that I had experienced had never failed me in my life. In a final effort to make sense out of all of this disorientation I went back to the Bible. I started by stripping away anything that was not base to my belief in Jesus Christ as the Savior, and then even deeper to the reasons why God would do what He did to save mankind. I can tell you that I had many struggles and tears in what I found was true and what I found was simply opinions of men. As I began to evaluate the creeds and doctrines from the various churches with what the truth was I found that even in the church community I was turning into an outsider. I found very few people who were willing to see the truth apart from the doctrinal view of their particular church influences. While it had me even more convinced in the very simple message and directive that God had given His Son to deliver to us I found more and more rejection of that simple message without additions being made to it by those who came after the establishment of the church by Christ. Even the words of the Apostles have been twisted by men to mean something different than they had intended by many who would manipulate others through their faith in God.
It was that discovery that brought me back to the simple teachings of God through Jesus Christ to all of us...and I stand today solid in that realization that we must draw as near to Christ and the original message given to us as possible in these days. Creeds and doctrines will not save us; only the blood sacrifice and belief in God will save us. The truth is much more simply found than I started out believing because I cut away all of the clutter that I had within my head and heart. I hope this little personal view of truth seeking has helped you in finding a place to start if you have been confused in this life about who is right or wrong in your faith. The world will continue to try to separate us into camps of people who demand our loyalty, but realize that the only real loyalty must be to the truth that has always been there in your life...the never changing truth from God to you. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
I have had a kind of personal disconnect in the last few years with all of the Us against them mentality this world uses to continually separate us from from one another. I can remember the feeling that I would have even as a small child when I was picked for a team in some game looking at those who were on a different team in a different way.
I wanted to win for my team and make sure they lost for theirs. That general sense of mentality has been carried over in all of our lives whenever we join with a group of people in whatever efforts we have and for the most part this is working within the spiritual community at a higher emotional level than ever before in this world.
I remember what happened during the war times of our country during the 60's had terrible conflict socially because of that team mentality being broken. Chaos broke out because there was no real team efforts. Even those who served were alienated from the social structure for many years. The only thing that I had in those years was in seeking the truth...and as I began to dig for that truth; not even really knowing what I was looking for, I began to uncover even more lies and manipulations in areas that I had always before held as standards of this country and of the church that I had based my life upon.
If I was to find this truth then I would have to start with the only place where the truth that I had experienced had never failed me in my life. In a final effort to make sense out of all of this disorientation I went back to the Bible. I started by stripping away anything that was not base to my belief in Jesus Christ as the Savior, and then even deeper to the reasons why God would do what He did to save mankind. I can tell you that I had many struggles and tears in what I found was true and what I found was simply opinions of men. As I began to evaluate the creeds and doctrines from the various churches with what the truth was I found that even in the church community I was turning into an outsider. I found very few people who were willing to see the truth apart from the doctrinal view of their particular church influences. While it had me even more convinced in the very simple message and directive that God had given His Son to deliver to us I found more and more rejection of that simple message without additions being made to it by those who came after the establishment of the church by Christ. Even the words of the Apostles have been twisted by men to mean something different than they had intended by many who would manipulate others through their faith in God.
It was that discovery that brought me back to the simple teachings of God through Jesus Christ to all of us...and I stand today solid in that realization that we must draw as near to Christ and the original message given to us as possible in these days. Creeds and doctrines will not save us; only the blood sacrifice and belief in God will save us. The truth is much more simply found than I started out believing because I cut away all of the clutter that I had within my head and heart. I hope this little personal view of truth seeking has helped you in finding a place to start if you have been confused in this life about who is right or wrong in your faith. The world will continue to try to separate us into camps of people who demand our loyalty, but realize that the only real loyalty must be to the truth that has always been there in your life...the never changing truth from God to you. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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