Our Entire Christian Journey

We are pilgrims in our journey of life and we must be committed to progressing in our spiritual walk on a day to day basis. We are first spiritual and then physical beings. Hence it is vital that we understand our spirit nature which ultimately gives form and content to what we create. There is the Divine Self within each one of us. When we tap into this Divine Self each day, we leave behind a legacy.

At a personal level, coming from a teaching background it was easy to connect with Jesus as the great teacher who was often referred to as the ‘Rabbi’. I feel more convinced than ever before that Covid-19 situation is a momentous opportunity for discipleship. It is an opportunity to disciple our own selves with studying and transforming our way of thinking and regenerating our own lives so we can victoriously complete our individual, family and community race in victory. Victory always unfolds as a result of concerted effort to shine the light brighter for our fuller and higher expression.

As a follower of Christ who regards his immortal teachings with deepest respect he is my Satguru. Below is a short excerpt from the following site which warns even Christians the wrong path we are inclined to take:
https://lovesingapore.org.sg/40day/2020/

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PRAYERLUDE
The virus of Casual Christianity can be traced to a one-sided image of Jesus. We identify more with the Highly Exalted Christus Victor than with the humble and humiliated Christ crucified. We imagine that we can strut past the Cross and caper into Glory without sharing in the sufferings of Jesus.
This leapfrog Christology is the root of triumphalism and the uprooting of discipleship. Who wants to imitate a meek and lowly, tried and tempted, despised and rejected, slapped and spit-upon, scourged and crucified Jesus of Nazareth? Hardly anyone. Do you? Jesus fully identified with us in our greatest sorrows and weaknesses. But we fail to identify with him in his humiliation and suffering.
The Preacher of the Sermon to the Hebrews confronts this lopsided Christology and constrains us to follow the Original Jesus on the hard road to glory. Hebrews showcases the humanity and suffering of Jesus more clearly than any other biblical book. He became like us in every way. He experienced the human condition first-hand. He wrestled with every kind of temptation. He learned obedience through suffering. He prayed with weeping and wailing and fear. He endured hostility from sinners like us. He conformed his entire human life to the will of God from the inside out. He died in utmost humiliation for the sins of all humanity. And he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. This extraordinary image of a fully human Jesus is a Pearl of Great Price found only in Hebrews. Consider him.
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Discipleship is not an imitation of the Risen Christ, but of the humble, human, historical Jesus profiled in the Gospel and Hebrews. For Singapore, 2020 is the Year of Personal Discipleship. And for all the world, a year of testing by Covid-19. There’s no better time than now to rediscover and return to the image of Jesus proclaimed in the Sermon to the Hebrews. Let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured (HEBREWS 13:13).

It is extraordinarily painful to see people pursuing big dreams generally associated
with career progress neglecting their spiritual progress. Spiritual progress is of
vital importance if we are to progress as a human species and have dominion on
planet Earth as commanded by God.
It pains me deeply to see people in their sixties or seventies being
ending up with a sense of disillusionment after a life time of work
and dedication committing themselves to good works and a stable
life only to realise that they had taken the wrong road.

I remember the last time I visited my in-laws place in Kolkata
to let them know that although their son was overseas in
another country I would be taking their grandchildren to
Australia as I have got offers from universities for higher
studies. I found my father-in-law hardly able to digest the
summary of what I was trying to convey and instead blurted
out, “ You know looking back over my life, I have come to
realise what a great mistake I have made in my life.” He
gave up his magnificent future and took a life of suppressed
anger, becoming responsible for his own
mental depression. Looking back at that momentous confession
of my father-in-law he reminded me of Esau who due to his
momentary pangs of hunger was willing to barter his birth right
as the oldest son and gave all the blessings over to his younger
brother Jacob. You can read about this tragic story in Genesis
Chapter 25 in The Bible. The Old Testament is full of real stories
with great insights on how to lead a life of wisdom and higher
awareness.

The Universe is there for us each day to shower us with abundant
blessings and wisdom. However, we have to train our physical
bodies to be recipients of such blessings not only for our selves
but more so for the benefit of those around us and even for those
who are yet to come. This is how we leave a legacy behind, a
deeper footprint on the path of our life journey until the waves
of time come and wash all marks made by us are washed away.

© Christine Mukherjee. #myworldwithoutwalls.com