We have already seen that Jesus Christ combines in himself the divine and the human standing thereby as the perfect model for our spiritual life and life in the world. Jesus invites us to be his disciples as he wants us to be truly happy. The most important point here is to distinguish between true, real happiness and the apparent one. Real happiness can proceed only from our original nature, whreas apparent happiness relies on what appears to be real and yet is only a mirage. The method of Jesus, when he appeared in the world, was to invite people to accept the sumtotal of perfect and permanent happiness in the form of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus invited people to repent as the Kingdom of God was at hand.His fore-runner, John the Baptist, had exactly the same message. However, the Baptist was satisfied if the people modified their external behavior by being kind and generous to others. Jesus went deeper and demanded a total upheavel of one's personality by being born agin in spirit as against our usual birth in flesh from our parents. The fore-runner could not have imagined this new way of being born as children of God and he was not required to as his duty was only to prepare the way for Jesus. What Jesus was advocating was a new vision for which we had to turn back from our usual way of looking at things. From contacting the world through our five senses and the mind, we have to get behind to our very soul for a peep into our real nature. This will show us that we are nothing short of God's own image and likeness. The kingdom of God starts in our conviction of this reality to preserve and develop which is the real task of our spiritual life. This is to be achieved in confrontation with the world we live in where the life of Jesus should guide and lead us to perfect happiness.
Jesus invited people to repent as the Kingdom of God was at hand.His fore-runner, John the Baptist, had exactly the same message. However, the Baptist was satisfied if the people modified their external behavior by being kind and generous to others. Jesus went deeper and demanded a total upheavel of one's personality by being born agin in spirit as against our usual birth in flesh from our parents. The fore-runner could not have imagined this new way of being born as children of God and he was not required to as his duty was only to prepare the way for Jesus. What Jesus was advocating was a new vision for which we had to turn back from our usual way of looking at things. From contacting the world through our five senses and the mind, we have to get behind to our very soul for a peep into our real nature. This will show us that we are nothing short of God's own image and likeness. The kingdom of God starts in our conviction of this reality to preserve and develop which is the real task of our spiritual life. This is to be achieved in confrontation with the world we live in where the life of Jesus should guide and lead us to perfect happiness.
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