He is Here, Within Us Anonymous

Jesus is HERE, within us… Right Here today

By Anonymous

 

So many Christians wait their entire lifetimes for Jesus to come back.  Sometimes, in fact often, I think Christianity is full of waiters—more waiters than in Relish Restaurant on a Sunday afternoon at Brunch….and that’s a lot of waiters. But, we don’t have to wait.  The secret of Jesus is He is within us and was within us all the time.  His blood flows through us because His blood is Royal blood, but the blood of a commoner as well.  You see, if I am right in my reading of the Bible, Jesus is here with us, but He also never left because He stands with us when we stand tall and fight for justice and when we do our best as members of the human family.  When we get us early to go to work and work hard and then demand a decent wage—GOD and Jesus is with us; when we stand up for the rights of our youth like the befallen Travon Martin—Jesus and God are with us; when we demand decent housing and fight for better schools; Jesus and GOD are with us.  He never left us.  It is just a matter of our getting as excited about Jesus and GOD  as we do about Iron-Man and Spider-Man and never letting His work—GOD’s work—go undone as He colors our work, our goals and our aspirations every day.   That is why I say Jesus is alive and well and in our blood.  Jesus is why we must not spill each other’s precious blood as Black people and other people who love life, love GOD and LOVe the exciting work He has here on this precious planet for us to do. You can be like me, an older Episcopalian who doesn’t get all excited in church, but gets very excited all throughout the week when I get the opportunity to reach out to other people and help them see the importance of being politically aware as a human rights activists and never let the work of GOD go misinterpreted like so many people do.  I don’t like to have arguments about religion, but I like to take the high road when reading scripture and look at it through the eyes of a modern day Black Gay man who won’t let my sexuality or color stop me from believing in GOD and telling People about it.     I have a really good friend who is an atheist who I have great discussions about GOD with. My feeling is that some Biblical scholars actually question the existence of Jesus, while others really believe He was a true living and breathing Man and the Son of GOD.  I think He probably existed as a prophet, a believer in mankind, a visionary, maybe even a healer and a LOVer of the earth and its’ People.  I am not sure about the Great Dissention, but I know He must have existed, what with all the stories and ``fables’’ about Him.  But I think we need to stop quibbling over if He existed or not and spend our time doing the fantastically rewarding work Jesus and GOD would have and does want us to do.  It is all throughout the Bible.  Work towards justice; work for peace; work for the betterment of the human race; work for human decency, kindness and fairness.  This is what we, I think, are put on earth to do.  Not just get a new pair of sneakers and a new IPod and a New Degree from the Wharton School or Temple.  I Hope and Pray you will agree with me and come to our exciting church—Unity Fellowship Christ Church of Philadelphia at 55 North Broad Street in the Chapel at 2 P.M. every Sunday.  Our Gay, Transgendered and Lesbian friendly church is not only for People in those groups, but for ALL People who believe God is LOVe and that LOVe is for everyone.   I hope and Pray I will see you there.