My story is not a unique one.
Six years ago thirty years of study and prayer peaked simultaneously and within two years I found myself stripped of all my beliefs and then my preconceptions.
It all began with a simple question; a question which pierced my conscience to the core.
“How well do you know Jesus Christ?”
If you’ve ever heard God speaking to you, you will understand that any attempt to write down what you’ve heard will never convey the full impact of that moment. It is so with the collection of books we call the Bible. At the very best they are faint, incomplete whispers which point back to events but in the end are only there to jetisone us towards the truth.
Oddly, within twelve days of my first real encounter with the spirit of Jesus Christ, without having read the writings of St. Paul; I could have easily said that ALL wisdom, knowledge (and words that are not in any dictionary) are found in union with this spirit.
After a few years of faithful church attendance the penny dropped. There was nothing anyone could add to what had been given in those twelve days. I’d been given a flash-of-insight into the thing itself and seen what the apostles had seen.
Like I said, ‘My story is not a unique one’ as there are many who can lay claim to the same experience, both within the Christian church and without. My experience of Jesus was old news. Yet inspite of the immensely overwhelming moment, I was drawn back into this world and spent years hankering after the moment. I took every bit of advice that was given me and tried it, but no matter how hard I studied or prayed, I came up dry as a bone.
It would take thirty years before I’d reach out with every fibre in my being, every sparkle of ingenuity and intelligence, with all my senses grappling with the silence, the absense of God, my preconceptions (fuelled by years of confusion and indoctrination and some ) to eventually hear and see with those new eyes & ears which had been tarred and feathered by the flesh.
Now it’s your turn; unless you’re already here.
Peace,
Blue.
