JESUS CHRIST: THE SOLITARY LIFE

THE SOLITARY LIFE

 

He was born in a little village                

the son of a peasant woman.                            

He worked in a carpenter’s shop                     

            until he was thirty .                                .

Then for three years                                         

he was an itinerant preacher.

He never wrote a book.

He never held an office.

He had no money, no property,

no political power or religious status

nowhere to lay his head.

At the age of thirty three

condemned on false charges

he was nailed to a Cross between two thieves.

He was buried in a borrowed grave

through the pity of a friend.

Twenty centuries have come and gone;

And he is the centre of human history.

All the armies that ever marched

all the navies that ever sailed

all the parliaments that ever sat

all the kings that ever reigned put together

have not affected the life of man on earth

as much as that one Solitary Life

                of 
     JESUS CHRIST 

What was his secret?

“God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now we are witnesses. to everything he did.” (Acts 10:38)

You can follow in his footsteps.

God needs to fill you with his Holy Spirit.

How can he, if you are already full of self.

“Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls”. (Matt 11:29)

“Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.  But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being,  he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.” (Phil 2:6).

                                                           

 

God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power

The more we are empty of the spirit of self the more we can be filled with the Spirit of  God. This was his secret.