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The Only Means To The Only End

So The End Justifies The Means?

Jesus once claimed that he was THE Way, in the letter to the Colossian church Paul called Jesus the End. The end always justifies the means, when Jesus is both the end and the means.

Most Christians would agree but might confine this to him being the way to salvation. But I think him being the way means much more.

It is a common saying that “the end justifies the means.” This means that what you are trying to do justifies the way that you do it. In other words if you have to kill, or steal, or lie to accomplish what you are doing then so be it.

But Jesus himself is the ultimate end to all things, he is what we are all headed for. Whether we realize it or not He is also the real motive for all that we do.

Jesus once said “if you have seen me you have seen the father.” Back to the Father the universe goes. We departed him and have been trying to get back to him ever since.

Noble Ends That Fall Short

Applying this to Christian; the end that we are headed for is not “revival”. It is not ministry success or ministry fame, it is not “souls saved”. Which is often seen as the highest and most noble end and motive for whatever we do. In comparison to Jesus himself all these are but ulterior motives having varying amounts of self-interest.

Man apart from God tells himself “I’m going to be powerful and influential and successful, I won’t be accused of this or that, I will be a winner, not a loser.” But we are already a loser if we’ve left Jesus as our means himself and Jesus himself as the End game for those means. In other works, the end that Jesus has for us is not to be causing salvations. By the means of us fulfilling our specific and custom destiny.

Jesus Christ is our end, our ultimate motive. But he is also the means to that end (The Way).

Jesus really is the only way (means) to the only acceptable end.

To the extent that we have other motives (other ends) and use other means (other ways) to achieve those ends are the extents that we error and are off track.

More on The Way

What is your End? and what Ways are you pursuing that End?

 

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Blessed and Suffering

This Blessed and Suffering post begins my Q3 daily postings, every week day I will attempt to post an article. I did this in Q1, Q2 was dedicated to publishing and launching by book From His Side. Now I will continue on with the daily postings. Posting daily is a lot of work but it was very rewarding.

Blessed and Suffering

Don’t mistake God’s blessing and abundance and provision in Jesus for the absence of suffering and death. They are both true.

The majority of the popular word of faith teachers (which are now more shallow and mainstream than ever) assumed that blessed and abundantly provided for surely must also mean freedom from suffering and dying daily. Kenneth Hagin was an exception to this but his teachings on this were not popularized or marketed like his others.

Not so.

Both blessed of God and suffering are true for us. Just like they are for Jesus Christ himself.

Jesus Christ is high and supreme king of the universe … who also suffers.

We live in s body and mind and spirit which must be put under and killed. But we also are seated high above in heavenly places with Jesus himself.

We are both dead men/women and fused with the God of the universe at the same moment.

Jesus Christ is the very fusion between heaven and earth in one man.

Wheat Jesus is so are we in the world. Death is a huge part of being a Christian. By it we conquer ourselves. Where death works in us the resurrection power of Jesus Christ restores. One of the biggest mistakes that I see is that people ignore the part of us that needs to die with the part of us that is seated with Jesus.

What is true of one (my identity in Christ the second Adam, the firstborn from the dead) should never be applied to the other (my identify in the flesh from Adam destined for death).

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It’s Ok

It’s ok to be average!

It’s ok to be overlooked

It’s ok to be disrespected

It’s ok to not dominate

It’s ok to not be the winner

It’s ok to be mediocre

It’s ok to not be impressive

It’s ok to get stolen from

It’s ok to get taken advantage of

It’s ok to not always be the best

If this describes you:

don’t feel insecure

don’t feel guilty

don’t feel like a loser who needs to change

don’t try to make something happen

The kingdom of Jesus is made of people like this. People like this who are absolutely obsessed with Jesus Christ, taken and given over to him, laying down their lives, their ambitions , their greatness, their selfish natures and their wills even to the point of death if necessary.

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