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THE PARABLES OF SCRIPTURE By Obinna "Kruseaphix" Onuoha Apr 29, 2016
If I told you about a person who is super cool, one who is humble and extremely patient, selfless and hospitable, given to charity, loves limitlessly, rich in knowledge, ready to help you out of any situation you happen to find yourself in, intellectually sound yet fun loving, full of life and enjoys conversations, trusting to a fault and can see treasure where every other person sees dirt, long enough a desire to meet and encounter this person for yourself will be stirred within you. It soon becomes more about knowing the person first hand than about the tales you hear.So is the scripture!
Everything written in the scripture is a narrative description of the person of God and of His Christ. It is an individual attempting to describe to you his encounter with God. When you take a hold of the bible and read it, it should stir up a hunger that transcends the words written in its pages which propels you towards an encounter/experience of the God and Christ that the writers of the bible are attempting to describe. It is that point where you say 'Enough of you telling me about this person, i want to meet him!'. At this point, third party knowledge becomes unsatisfying, you crave a first-hand relationship. This is the aim for the documentation of scripture; a deliberate trail left behind that should ultimately lead you to the person of Christ where you get to taste, partake and experience Him for yourself far beyond that which any narrative could describe. Christ then becomes real to you and not just a mythical or fictional entity.
This may sound odd due to the sensitivity of the subject but the fact is, ONCE YOU HAVE AN ENCOUNTER & RELATIONSHIP WITH AN INDIVIDUAL, NARRATIVES BECOMES LESS SIGNIFICANT. Likewise, once you have a relationship with Christ, when you have truly encountered Him and you are walking with Him, it would mean less to you if there's a slight difference between the narratives of Matthew and that of Luke for example. You would spend less time debating and arguing whose narrative is more accurate than the other because you now know Him.
Follow the trail of the narrative and it should lead you to a relationship (which is the goal) yet if you dwell so much on the narrative as though that is all there is, you might just end up farther away than when you began.
The beautiful thing about the narrative of the scriptures and the biography of Christ is that He (Jesus) is alive and reachable thus if you so desire, you can meet Him to reveal Himself to you deeper than the gospels and letters of Mark, Paul, John or Peter ever could. For no third party narrator can give a more accurate information about the narrated than himself.Think about it...
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