One doesn’t have to give up as many things as they might think, but just quit abusing them! When one begins to take an esoteric journey, it seems as though there’s no markers, no milestones, no rudder for the ship we’re on. Complete abandonment isn’t the goal. Being ONE with our Creator is! So, how do you know?
There’s no need to argue or fight what anyone else believes!
Being tolerant, caring, and loving is the goal: not trying to change someone’s mind or getting them to believe as you might. Isn’t that what the world needs to be delivered from, and more? There’s really no need to try and dethrone any doctrine, creed, or belief. Just don’t give it power in your life, that’s all.
I don’t know what heaven is going to look like or feel like. I can’t prove that Mary wasn’t a virgin any more than another can prove that she was. I don’t spend my life worring about sin management, which the church does all too frequently, and the consequences of original sin. Jesus took away the POWER of sin in my life. LAW could never do that. It was a failed experiment for thousands of years.
I’m not throwing out baby or bath water. Both can remain while I take a fresh water shower of my own. I, and we, can talk and not feel a need to CONVINCE or MANIPULATE the other into believing one way or the other. God is going to sort all things out in the end. This is His game, His rules, and I confess that I’m more interested in simply PLAYING than I AM worring about who violated what rules and what the score is.
So, keep your outer comfort if you will. Keep your denominational religion. Keep your doctrines, creeds, and belief statements. But add to it the LOVE for humanhood- all of humanity and nature itself. Stay tuned to what the Spirit is saying because the LAW will only bring discord and death. Don’t you think we’ve had enough of that already?
Tune IN and BE!
So much weight has been taken of my shoulders the last few months. I am beginning to enjoy life as I was meant to be. It hurts me to see other people suffer due to their beliefs, but then I tell my self: been there done that; so they have to find their own schedule and path. So, lets continue to enjoy life and BE a good example to the world. Thanks Ernie
May God’s blessings be poured out on ALL and may those to whom desperately and courageously seek Him, be so blessed that thos on the fringe will be encouraged to come closer.
Two things:
1) lets practice what says this Post and we will see as our life will changed.
2) Ernie each one of your sacrifices is already giving fruit, the alive church is getting up!
Te amo.
Stay tuned for…..tomorrow’s LOVE STORY!
I “fancy” myself as an esoteric Christian, if a Christian at all. Really enjoyed this post. I am trying to take its points to heart.
I wrote a post on the esoteric Christian some time ago. I do feel it fits me as well as any label does. I do so hate labels!!
http://donrogers.org/?s=esoteric