It’s probably good that Jesus came when he did and not today. If he had come today, he’d have uttered his famous phrase, “Follow me,” and disciples everywhere would swipe their smart phones and try to look him up on Twitter. They’d search @SonofMan, @Messiah, @Redeemer, @Savior – dude has a lot of names.
They’d come up empty. I looked up several of those names on Twitter. None of them led me to anything interesting or the least bit wise. Bogus posers, not one was @GodAmongUs.
Evidently, Jesus does not tweet. Honestly, I wish he did. Sifting through the amount of information available on the big four: relationships, career, money and wellness to try to enlighten you toward happiness would be so much easier. I’d simply set up an app to retweet Jesus.
Think that’s cheating? Think I’d soon lose my job if I just parroted whatever @theKingof Kings says to do to find #healthyrelationships, #careersuccess, #financialindependence, and #holisticwellness. Ha! Wrong, you are.
Preachers do it every week, admittedly, some better than others. People still fail. I’ve been doing pretty much that for the last two+ decades – parroting Jesus, not failing – and I still have job security. Know why?
Because most of us (me too) hear something @theLord says and we hesitate. We think it’s too hard. We realize it’ll cost us too much. So instead of loving as he loved, we manipulate and our relationships suffer. Instead of acting with integrity, we scheme and our career suffers. Instead of living below our means, we buy stuff we don’t need to impress people that don’t care, and our financial independence suffers. Instead of caring for our bodies and minds, we hurry through junk food lunch, worry about tomorrow, and ruin our health.
Therefore, I have job security! And, #IMHO, Jesus has too few followers.
He does have some respect, and that’s a good start. He’s not mad at anyone and neither am I. He knows we’re just trying to make it through life and that most of us are trying to figure things out. He wishes we’d accept more help, and stop hesitating to ask for it when it’s right in front of our closed eyes. He’s still sending out his message of love, acceptance, success, health, and happiness. He’s still keeping all his promises and not disappointing anyone. He’s still showing us how to love others.
I’m still trying Twitter. Sending out helpful articles on the four subjects mentioned above @jacksbuzz. Let me know if it’s helpful, and thanks for following.
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