{"id":2005,"date":"2013-05-28T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:28:20","slug":"what-would-jesus-do-actually-what-would-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2013\/05\/what-would-jesus-do-actually-what-would-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"“What Would Jesus Do?” Actually What would you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The other day I heard someone ask the question, \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d I just about fell down laughing. Because we have a sense of what he would do already from the bible, Gospel Of Mary, Thomas, etc\u2026we also have an idea of what Buddha would do, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Muhammad, etc\u2026my question is \u201cWhat would you do?\u201d For myself I know what it is like to deal with people who love you then turn their back on you and creating hate, lies, violence, manipulation, cleverness, Facebook rants, etc\u2026and I know how I responded to it.\u00a0 It was difficult but I passed the test.\u00a0 Jesus and Buddha and all the rest of them are wonderful examples for us to follow their lead, for they too have given us ways on how to deal with a world that seems to be in constant struggle, survival, violence, and corruption.<\/p>\n

Most spiritual leaders quote Jesus and the old and new testament, teachers of the Course in Miracles quote the course all the time in ways to bring up examples of Jesus, these are all wonderful ways to help others, but at some time we must move out of this endless quoting and into our experience.\u00a0 We must take the next level and live it, and be the example.\u00a0 To constantly quote someone else I don\u2019t think that is what Jesus had in mind with his disciples, he was teaching them to walk it and live it and not quote him. In fact it is no wonder it has taken us 2000 years to understand the teachings of Buddha and Jesus because we got in the way of it. With dogma, man made rules, and power.<\/p>\n

Now am I mocking these teachings of the Course, Christianity or any other religion, or spiritual practice, no I am not.\u00a0 But we really need to take a look at ourselves as a world.\u00a0 And stop asking what Jesus would do, and start asking, \u201cWhat are we doing? How are we being now in life? How are we living?\u201d\u00a0 It is easy to quote Jesus, the bible, the Course, rather than live it, and take it to another level.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019s hope in the Gospel of Thomas was for us and his disciples to take it to another level and take the baton and run for it.\u00a0 But we stopped as a group, and stayed stagnant.<\/p>\n

At some time we have to leave the co-dependence of the religious Jesus, spiritual Jesus, and listen to what he said and practice it ourselves and see if it is true.\u00a0 Some people hold on to the teachings of Jesus as though they are true and then cut others up, gossip, judge, criticize, harbor resentments, violent toward others, well that isn\u2019t following or listening, that is like a child refusing.<\/p>\n

Teachings of Christianity, Jewish, Islam, Spirituality, New Age, New Thought, etc\u2026are marvelous teachings at their core. Wonderful paths to walk down and experience who you are, but you have to walk it and the walking it on this planet is the problem, everybody is used to talking, quoting, referencing, giving examples, trying to be positive, and no body wants to live it.\u00a0 Walking it is the struggle, is the road less traveled, taking the high road when the low road is easier, forgiving others and self when revenge and killing another is easier. And yes you are killing a person when you gossip, judge, or criticize them, it is easy to blame, throw your hurt at another because you are hurt, and all the rest of it.<\/p>\n

So our work in this life is to figure out what is standing in the way of our FULL EXPRESSION and to rid ourselves of it.\u00a0 Go inside and find out what Jesus was saying and stop quoting him and telling everyone what he would do and all the while live your life not dong any of it.\u00a0 So \u201cwhat would you do? How would you stop someone who was hating on you and lying?\u201d Discover your heart.<\/p>\n

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