Are you looking for something glorious and magnificent? My early followers were. They would have been happy with a conquering king to deliver them from occupation and oppression. Do you think that some were disappointed with my teachings about lilies and sheep and coins and birds? Are you? Many of my messages I closed with the words, he who has eyes to see, let him see, or he who has ears to hear, let him hear. My audience was hungry for the Kingdom of God, and my message was that the Kingdom of God is all around you in everyday life if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. Do you?

Does the Bible teach you that my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts? Do you accept that this is true even if you have a Bible? The Bible doesn’t make you smarter than me. Moses trembled when he encountered me, and others, including my beloved John, fell to the ground on their faces as dead men. But you have come to the City of the Living God and have access to a greater realm of glory than they did. Can you bear it?

Do you take the Bible seriously? What is your greatest concern about the Bible? Do you insist that all the events of the Bible happened exactly as described, and would appear as such if captured by modern video recording? Is this your defense of the integrity of the Bible? Or are you more concerned about how to implement in your own life the message that the Bible speaks to you? Can you answer this question by the guidance given in the Bible? Some are called to be theologians, but the guidance I gave to everyone who responded to my message was to follow me. 

Do you take insults personally? When someone seems to be overly sensitive do you tell them not to take it personally? If you are a person how else would you take it? Yet this is common terminology that is well understood even if the underlying principle is seldom articulated. How fragile is your identity? Is it externally based, dependent on the affirmation and approval of others, and therefore subject to rise and fall based on their whims? This is a weak sense of self. Or is it internally based, given by me, and therefore independent of external circumstances?