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The Bible paints a picture of Jesus by making extraordinary claims about him. He is one with God and shares in the power of authority of God. He is the revelation of God. He is also the revelation of “the way,” not only in John but also in the synoptics. He is the bread of life who satisfies the deepest hunger of human beings and the light shining in the darkness who brings enlightenment. He lifts us out of death into life. He is the World and Wisdom of God embodied in a human life. He is the disclosure of what a life full of God—a life filled with the Spirit—looks like. This is who Jesus is
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As John states, Jesus, as embodied spiritual consciousness, is truly the light of all people, but all people are not aware of this light, regardless of the name by which it is called (Buddha consciousness, Krishna consciousness, Christ consciousness, etc.). Awakening to this awareness is the continuing work of the Spirit in the world in all religious/spiritual traditions.
Barbara Brown Taylor says, God is up there, down here, inside my skin and out. God is the web, the energy, the space, the light—not captured in them, as if any of those concepts were more real than what unites them—but revealed in that singular, vast net of relationships that animates everything there is.25
We are divine in exactly the same way that Jesus was divine. The difference is that Jesus knew and experienced this. We do not. The difference between us and Jesus is a matter of degree, not kind. Our divinity is buried under a bucketful of ego.
“Never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” That is why I follow Jesus. Jesus is the new model of humanity.
heaven is already and always present within us—and our goal is to realize, embrace, and manifest that reality in the world here and now.
