“Death paves the road to new life”

Jesus is born into social and political oppression that the original Hebrew’s lived. His first priority was to speak to the Jewish tradition because he is a Jew. He memorized the same laws, poems, teachings and faith of his people group I speculate that he felt the angst of violence preferred by Moses, and the prophets. Jesus affirmed his tradition when it was enlightened and speaks with fresh word and authority when clouded in regressive ignorance. His impact upon all of humanities God image has not gone unnoticed, this would be an understatement. As followers of Jesus we do have a faith that God became one of us in some mystical way in Jesus. I suppose in this life I will only guess at the oneness of Jesus and our creator he called, Father. As a man who is committed to understanding and flowing Jesus’s teachings I assert that his power and spirit is in our questions. Jesus is God with us in my tension, faith and in my own darkness. We are held and accompanied with all of creation in frustration, questions, hope, faith, love and even death. In faith we hold that behind all death is new life, and we get this model directly from Jesus. He embodied this teaching with his life and death. A seed must die, be buried, in order to grow into its fullest life.

 

Teaching:

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

 

Practice:

Daily and moment by moment be willing to die to ego, your illusion of being right, your pride and be willing to fall into the hands of the good father. In this practice we follow the example of Jesus in his life and death.