The good works of Jesus the Christ / by kevin murray

Most people consider the healing of so many, the feeding of the thousands, the turning of water into wine, and the resurrection of dead, to be perceived as “miracles.”  While, indeed, these were miraculous, they would more appropriately be described as being a fair representation of the good works of the Messiah, of which we so read in Holy Scripture In John 14:12, that “…he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also…”   Which thus indicates that each one of us, is capable of performing the same miraculous acts that Jesus so performed, if only we would become fully actualized by being in conformance with the attributes of our God and of our Messiah.

 

That is to say, as equally created children of our immaculate God, we are all accorded with the capability to perform wondrous deeds, but in order to do so, we must first develop the discipline to keep our mind and therefore our acts, rightly focused upon only that which is good and beneficial – along with also having the wisdom to take the gifts that we have developed over an extended period of time and thus use them responsibly for the greater good of humankind.   

 

In life, as much as we might wish that we could take shortcuts in order to get to the destination that we so desire to be, we do so find, that before we can get to where we so need to go, that we need to first be a good pupil, learning well from our esteemed and wise elders; and further to the point, we need to then demonstrate in action, that what we have so been taught – is validated by us through successfully having passed the tests so needed to demonstrate that we have not only learned our lessons well, but that we also have absorbed those lessons successfully in our persona, so that what we so need to represent and to be in our actions, are always consistent with, and therefore in tune with our God, who first formed us, in God’s good image.

 

While it is good to appreciate the greatness of Jesus the Christ, is isn’t good enough just to sit back and admire such -- for each of us has a responsibility to answer to that sacred call, to thus become what we were always created to be.  Those then that put their nose to the grindstone so as to manufacture good works for the betterment of the society that we are an integral part of are thus doing their necessary part to help make this world a better place for their involvement in it.  That is why, our Messiah, never stated to His disciples, that what He so did, could not be repeated by anyone else.  Rather, what our Messiah taught, is that we as equal creations of our God, are meant to well develop our skill set and then to thus utilize our skills on behalf of being a material aid for those that are our brothers and sisters. In short, the good change that we so desire to see enacted in this world, comes forth from the good works that we so help to manifest.