Sunday, April 21, 2019

JESUS CHRIST 'TOUCHING'

JESUS CHRIST'S "TOUCHING" Jesus Christ did not write one word of the Bible despite being the main figure of the New Testament, if not of the entire Christian religion, that he called "the way" in distinction to other forms then extant in mankind. Writers today are revered, as were rightly scribes of old, who gave us hieroglyphics, hieratic and demotic, Pyramid Texts, more, writings in three forms in Kemet and in Kush. The fact that Jesus himself left no writings but testimony, "pernicious superstition" Romans called it for centuries, while purging, drowning, beheading, crucifying, its votaries, believers, in Rome, Palestine, and in Africa, particularly; before later adoption of the way of Jesus Christ as their own, goes to show that one need not do anything singularly nor even entirely successfully in order to be remembered, even revered! The key is for one to touch the lives of others be they alive, dead, or yet unborn. But 'touch' means with the sensible awareness of their divine symmetry, the cosmic equivalency, infinite companionship before God, the Creator and Recycler of all life. Answering the crucial question of 'I' is the sine qua non of all ministries. Jesus posits, answers, proves his mastery of "I" by having a life after death, not only to his disciples; not only to African American slaves and their descendants, but to me, who proudly acclaims African descent! Not to me only, but unto all who call in confidence, in faith, Jesus heals; he strengthens, emboldens equips, befriends, and loves; by 'touching!' 'Touching' the heart the receptacle of life: the keeper of the pulsating, continuously flowing of blood-streams that are the sustainers of life: material, nutritional, spiritual. Life of man is the canonic, canopic canister that the 'touch' of Jesus has so consecrated in spirituals, praise, prayers, proverbs, protests!