I need me Jesus, a WiFi and a stocked
fridge with everything I might need to get going to be able to fulfill the
scriptures. Jesus to aid my salvation, WiFi to watch movies, chat and surf the
internet unend and food as a basic need and I will just be fine. I don’t know
about you but going through each day is an arduous task for me. The kind of bs
I have to put up with by virtue of the role I play as a family, a friend, a
colleague and a member of the community I find myself in, at any given time.
The need to guide my mind against that of others, when to discard or hold on to
an existing knowledge or a piece of information and the need to keep my mind
open or close at alternate times can be debilitating but I still thrive because
the pain has become the reason to love.
Jesus died painfully on the cross
because he loves us. Wait! Is it Jesus Christ who loves us or it is his Father,
God, who does? Maybe, both of them love us. But where do I place the Holy Ghost?
Maybe all of them do hence the conspiracy to sacrifice Jesus for our sake. And
all of these add up to the pain I mentioned in the earlier paragraph. Nothing
makes sense anymore and it hurts to know that. Maybe it’s information overload
which is fine by me because I can’t even allow myself to be labeled a basket
case.
They claim it’s a free world and
I can be anything I want to be but I dare not because I live in an
institutionalized society where stereotyping is our stock-in-trade. We are
supposed to go to the Mosque on Fridays, attend church through Saturday to
Sunday even though some denominations have taken it a notch further. We also
attend school from Monday to Friday, vote at a given time, expected to marry
and become a parent at a certain time and many other expectations which have
timelines even against the back drop of what I want to be.
According to the law of
consequence which is in harmony with the world and by extension, order, a man
reaps what he sows making everyone responsible for their own actions and
inactions. But in another vein, Jesus Christ came to die to redeem and salvage
all of us from our sinful ways and this right here contradicts the law of
nature. Now my dilemma is should I just walk about expecting to reap what I
sow, or be rest assured that Jesus’ death has already solved every thing? How
can one person die to cleanse our sins when we are supposed to actually be responsible
for our individual transgressions? Unless two analogies transits or comfortably
fits into each other, one is discarded - leaving behind the one with the near
precision so right here, we have to discard one of the theories which to me is
another cul-de-sac.
Would it not be consistent with
the laws of nature, nobler and responsible of us if we account for our lives
rather than hiding in the shadows of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? Maybe, I am lost
for wanting to know what Jesus’ death has got to do with this but again we were
told in his own words that "It is
not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the
righteous, but sinners." So I don’t understand why Christians think
Jesus came for everyone or everyone must go to the Father only through him who
is the light of the world.
In Jesus own words, it is not
everyone who needs him. Hence he did not come for everyone but those lagging
behind which also means there are people in the forefront who are already doing
well. So why do his followers think otherwise? Again he has admonished us not
to be judgmental but our zealousness makes us assume his role as the judge when they should be working their salvation with trembling and fear. It
is common for Christians to condemn other religions even though that is not
their preserve.
Contrary to the popular opinion
to what Jesus should look like, I saw one portrait of Jesus Christ looking like
a rock artist wielding a goatee as he was been baptized and all I could mutter
was anokwa. Christian’s inability to
understand the nuances of Christianity has made it a ridicule and all of these sometimes
makes Christianity appear to me like a child’s play. For instance, Christians do not
believe in reincarnation because it is supposed to be a traditional belief yet
they will preach to you about Jesus Christ’s resurrection and are even looking
forward to die and meet him in Paradise and I just do not know what to believe anymore.
It is the contradictions and
differences in ideologies and doctrines that have given birth to so many
denominations in the realm of Christendom. There is no consensus as to what is
right and no sense of unity among Christians so how do they expect to bring
other religions into their fray?
It is even pathetic how you are
condemned when you ask in-depth and mind-boggling issues concerning the
Christian faith and because I have become weary and sick from all this hot air,
I have decided to forget about all these people and the related protocols to
seek the Boss himself – the only reason why I need me Jesus.
The writer tweets @vilejah
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