Jesus and the Revelation that we are One

Jesus revealed a divine truth about God. He is on the side of the excluded. Jesus identified with those whom the exclusive groups within the world rejected. He didn’t identify with the poor simply because they were poor; rather, he connected with them because the were being excluded due to their poverty. Jesus connected with those who had been rejected by other groups.

Truth be told, Jesus is the ultimate outsider of all groups and labels—he does not stand on the side of the rich or the poor, of men or of women, of black or of white—he is on the outside of all these separate groups, and it is outside of them we are welcomed, no matter where we stand on the world’s social ladder, to make our home and discover our true identity with him. It is on the outside we begin to see each other no longer as different, as better or worse, but as family. As brothers and sisters. As one.

Jesus didn’t come to build his own little group, he came to bring us into a place where there are no groups. A place where we let go of the labels of the world. He did not come to create an army. On the contrary, he came to implant a truth so deep within the human heart it would have the power to end all armies.

God is Love. He has no tribe, no army. Rather, he has the world in its entirety in his hands. A humanity as a whole that he loves. Jesus came to break the belief in tribes (at the time, not unlike our current times, every nation, most notably his own, believed their God was exclusively theirs and theirs alone) to bring us into the truth of Oneness.

He revealed that our reflection is not just the person in the mirror, it is the person across from us. Across from our political beliefs. Across from our religious beliefs. Across from our social status. Across from our suffering or our blessings. Across from the color of our skin. He removed the belief in camps and groups, in the lifestyle of separation and exclusion.

Jesus revealed how all the reasons we conclude make us different (and therefore, in our minds, justifies separating ourselves from others) only blinds us from the truth.

We are not different. We are more than the same.

We are one.

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This was an excerpt from my forthcoming book, out Aug 26: An Outsider’s Guide to the Gospel.

It is the follow up to my novel SNAP: Everyone has a Breaking Point

(Want to help out a little with the book launch? You’re invited to join this facebook group here)