RELIGION CAN’T HANDLE THE REAL YOU

In my experience of 15 years into serious religion, I realized that there are three reasons why one would stay in religion and defend it or even die for it. Here are three reasons:

1. FAMILY:

Many people, like they never chose their parents, have never chosen their religious affiliations either. When my father chose me, he by default chose my faith. They have been conditioned since childhood. The religion is all they know and all the relatives are in there. Some people we preach to fail to leave because quitting a wrong thing like religion means losing all your family and friends. An exodus from Egypt is a loss of the entire sociology. Sociology has people and profit benefits.

I know of many people who know their parents are wrong and the religion itself is wrong but cannot leave the spiritually wrong and oppressive Egypt for the wilderness.

Some have now embarked on the mission, of how to stay in Egypt as a Christian.

I can be in this religion and be selective, follow what I know is right and don’t or even resist what is wrong. These people know nothing about what their religion teaches but are in the religion of their parents/family.

These are the only people in the world who have succeeded in eating the cake and keeping it at the same time. The Bible says blessed is a man who does not walk, sit and stand with the wicked (Psalm 1:1). The word of God calls us out of some sociologies for staying means you cannot avoid their wine (Jeremiah 51:45, Revelation 18:4, 1Corinthians 15:33). It is not good for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18), but what if your sociology feeds on your individuality? THIS IS WHY THE REAL THEM (SELF) HAS BEEN LOST.

2. FINANCES:

When I was at the University, Kenyans were the majority Theology students, Tanzanians the second in number, then came Rwanda and Uganda where the University is ranked at the bottom.

I started asking myself why Ugandans were few and yet the University was in their country and I realized that the countries that had majority theology students were the very countries that had the best-paid pastors in the religion. I don’t want to judge but 98% of the students from those countries were not interested in the faith as they were interested in the finances.

To them, a theological degree was a qualification for a job, not a Gospel truth apologetics rationale.

For them, it was fundamentally a job and no matter what the Biblical truth was, what mattered most was a qualification for the job.

These degrees served as an apology of their theological ignorance. Some subscribe to institutions not because they agree with what the institutions teach but because they need academic sponsorship locale and overseas.

Others are in institutions they don’t believe in because they have to work, pay back the loans these institutions have against them as an advantage. After struggling with poverty for a long time, I understand where these financially dependent people come from, poverty is not just bad, it is a sin that we need to repent.

So for people to pursue prosperity is something I respect, but the Bible asks; what shall it profit for a man to eat the whole earth but lose his soul? (Luke 9:25, Mark 8:36) when the young rich ruler was asked to sell all he had, give to the poor and come and follow Jesus, he walked away from Jesus sorrowful (Luke 18:23). THIS IS WHY THE REAL THEM (SELF) HAVE BEEN LOST.

3. FOOLISHNESS:

The most difficult term I have struggled with to define in life is ‘Foolish’. I used to refer (in thoughts) to my ex-girlfriend as a ‘Fury-Fool’. What I meant was that she was this kind of person, who had a temper and exercised it even before she understood.

I was a fool all the time I spent with her. A fool is one who defends and fights in two ways:

1. He sees reality and sometimes touches it then denies it exists and fights what he sees.
2. A fool is one who despises wisdom.

There are people who know how wrong their doctrines are, but still believe them under the disguise of progressive revelation (doctrines and science). Religious people keep doing the same things expecting different results. There two religious fools that I know; the Theistic fool and the Scientific fool.

Both of these fools have lost their ‘self’ and now live by the tenets of their religion.

The Theistic fool has rejected God in the flesh (Jesus Christ) for their man-made doctrines and traditions (Luke 24:25, Mark 7:8, 13). All theistic fools fall under mainstream religions like Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, SDA, Anglican, Pentecostalism, etc.

The scientific fool is one who has denounced that God exists, even though this fool knows that the real cause must be uncaused (Psalm 14:1, 53:1) he insists there is no God. This is a committed atheist.

By denying their origin, they have denied their ‘self’, denounced their present and re-defined their future. THIS IS WHY THE REAL THEM (SELF) HAS BEEN LOST.

For religion to control you, it has to rob your identity first. You become entirely a different person from who you were created.

The three Fs that define you in religion are performance-based. An identity determined by our own performance is actually in opposition to the gospel…not to mention impossible to maintain.

That is why to be your original ‘self’ Christianity has launched another antagonistic F and that is:

4. FAITH:

It is only under the faith that we will discover ourselves. Under family, with Finances and when we are fools in religion. We consciously and subconsciously develop an independence attitude of God.

We stop asking God to make us better people but look at who God is as our goal. We pursue perfection and particularly that perfection of God. Under religion, we desire to become God to ourselves.

Daniel Bush in his Book ‘Undefended’ says:

“So much goes awry in the Christian community and in the lives of Christians when spiritual growth and maturity is equated with perfection.

Perfection is the furthest thing from maturity—first of all, because it’s an attribute of God alone, and second, since perfection implies the absence of need, a perfect being wouldn’t need God.

Neediness is an essential attribute of being truly human—and without it; you would be separated from connection with God.

Spiritual maturity is, therefore, not perfection, but the unique amalgamation of authenticity and need. It’s seeing yourself and God rightly, as well as seeing and living out of that connection in every area, attitude, and action.

This is becoming truly human: Finding your true self in Christ, who is Immanuel (“God with us”)—divine love in its outward expression.

By contrast, the “false self” . . . is when you exist without conscious mindfulness of and trust in Christ.

It’s looking at your own mechanisms, accomplishments, abilities, and prowess—what you can produce—or looking at what others can provide and produce for you, as the basis and substance of your existence. You put on a mask and play a part in order to obtain what you think you need from others.”

THE DAY YOU WILL OBTAIN FAITH, PLACE IT IN THE RIGHT GOD, YOU WILL DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE AND NO RELIGION WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE WHO YOU ARE. ONLY GOD HIMSELF WILL. IF YOU ARE STILL UNDER ANY CHARGE BUT GOD, OR UNDER GOD BUT THROUGH AN AGENT, THEN WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IDENTITY,

God bless you I invoke TRUTH, REASON, and FAITH (2Tim 2:7)
Priest Isaiah White
iTiS Well of Well Fellowship (John 4:24)
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