The Ordinary Stone

Stare at the Son ‘til the world goes dark.
Systems of men fade, His searing mark.
Sun blistered eyes, the mark of the free.
You must become blind before you can see.
Alone this path walked, this path liberty.

A book about the ordinary humanity of Jesus as the cornerstone of present freedom from sin for those who see him clearly and follow after Him.

I was a sincere Christian for over twenty years. I loved God. I served in church. I experienced the Spirit. And I was not free. Not really. I managed sin. I fought it, confessed it, and called the cycle normal because every Christian I knew was living the same way. Then God showed me something so simple it destroyed everything I thought I knew.

He showed me Jesus. Not the theological Jesus I had studied for decades, but the actual Jesus of Scripture: a person acting through an ordinary human nature, identical to mine, who never sinned. Not because His divinity upgraded or overrode His humanity, but because as a person He operated through that ordinary humanity rightly, in dependence on the Father, through the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit I, and all Christians, had already received at conversion.

That single insight collapsed every excuse I had ever built. If He acted through the same nature I act through (as scripture and creed state), and His victory was won through the same Spirit now living in me, then my ongoing sin was not inevitable. It was not the tragic consequence of a broken nature. It was a choice. And I could make a different one. I could actually abide in Him. Really abide. Remain with Him perpetually just as he taught us to.