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 clear sight of the ordinary humanity of Jesus being the cornerstone of everlasting righteousness and present freedom from sin.

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 exceptional theological Jesus I had studied for decades, but the actual Jesus of Scripture and creed: a person acting through an ordinary human nature, identical to mine without exception, who never sinned. Not because His divinity upgraded or overrode His humanity, not because his humanity was a different version than my own but because as a person He operated through that ordinary humanity lovingly, in daily dependence on the Father, through the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit I, and all other Christians had already received.

That single insight collapsed every excuse I had ever built. If He acted through the same nature I act through* distinct from His divinity** (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 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 in love, perpetually just as he taught us to. Just as He proved was possible in our very humanity.

*Hebrews 2 - 4
**3rd Ecumenical Council - Chalcedon (451 AD) & 6th Ecumenical Council- Constantinople 3 (681 AD) - affirmed by all Christians universally who agree Jesus is fully God and fully Man.