Years ago there was a controversial play about town called, “Jesus Christ Super Star”. There was a song sung in the production which has never left me called, “He’s A Man, He’s Just A Man.” I believe it was sung by the woman playing the role of Mary Magdalene, the woman from the Bible whom the church, for its own agenda, has chosen to portray as a prostitute and harlot who was saved form her sins by the simple touch of Yahshua (Jesus).
He’s a man, just a man. The Bible also tells us that Yahshua was a “man just like us,” that is fully human with all of our emotions and everything else that comes with being a human being. It is really difficult for me to picture him as a man without first picturing him as being the chosen or anointed one of YHWH, and by doing so I do not see the truth, the extent of his humanity, and I think that is what causes me, and perhaps you the reader, to say to myself, “But what can I do, I am just a (wo)man; just one person?”
Is that a cop out on my part? Do I really believe that Yahshua was as fully human as I am and that despite the fact he was human, he did all those miraculous things that we are told about, in just three short years of his ministry? We won’t even get into what’s not revealed in what man has decided would make up the pages of the Bible. There is so much more and I find it difficult to understand why the church would have deemed it appropriate to put so very little in the Bible that actually speaks to the life and times of Yahshua. I mean, we are told he was born, then he had that incident in the Synagogue where he astounded the teachers etc., and then the wedding miracle of water to wine. That’s it until the last journeying days and his time with the disciples; three years of his going out and about, but even at that, most of what we read is about his disciples, by his disciples. They aren’t Yahshua’s actual words or much about what he was up to even in that three year period.
With what little we are given to work with, we need to think long and hard and deeply, then, about what it means when we are told he is just a man and his word to the disciples (and that would include you and I who believe in him, love him and seek to follow the ways laid down) would do what he did and even more. If he was just a man, and I am just a man – then why don’t I believe? Is it because I believe he was more than just a man; he had or was godlike powers and we mere mortals don’t have these same aptitudes? If that is the case, then I am saying that what is written is a lie. Yet, we are admonished not to add to or take away from the Bible. So where do I turn, how to I learn, what do I believe?
I have learned over the years that to learn, to know the truth, I must turn inwards and seek within where all answers lie buried, waiting for me to knock, ask and seek. That much Faith I do have, that it will be revealed to me at exactly the right time and what will be revealed will be exactly what I need to know.
Every time I am prompted to sit and write it turns out that something is being revealed to me, first me the writer, then to others who may read the words. My quest now is to seek to know the very humanness of Yahshua, that I might see that I am indeed as he was, and that I too am endowed with those same abilities for YHWH’s glory that the kingdom of heaven might truly come alive in this physical world. The kingdom is within, and it is time to find the key, to unlock the door, and allow the kingdom to come out, because God help us all, we are destroying everything.
What prompted the writing of this was something I read about the chaotic state of the human mind, and notably here in North America. I don’t need anyone to tell me that this is a truth; we have more personal coaches, psychologists, therapists, prescription medications than I dare to count because our lives are in such turmoil.
Is the outer really a reflection of the inner, and if so, will the quiet calming and stillness of just a man’s, one man’s mind and personhood help to distil that outer chaos and bring a calmness and serenity to a world sorely in need of peace?
If I am at peace, at-one as it was meant to be, will just my tiny little of space be infected by that blissful peacefulness? Will the birds sing more sweetly and the harsh sounds of the cars driving by be silenced by their sweet song. If I live peacefully and in stillness, for but a second, will it have a peaceful ripple affect on the world around me, like the dropping of a pebble into the midst of a pond?
I believe that when I speak negatively and see things in a negative light, it is because I am reflected what is going on within my own soul and spirit. There is garbage in there and as the saying goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
If I can go through just a moment of one day in peaceful surrender to just being, will it help dispel and disperse the negative ions and atoms that have gathered around me? I believe so. I believe my inner will reflect positively on my outer.
I am just a (wo)man, but I have everything that is needed to accomplish what I set my mind to in accordance with the Will of YHWH; our creator and He who sustains me, this very moment as I write this note.
Yahshua, just a man and the world centuries later still speaks of his simple words, gentle and sometimes not so gentle gestures. He was just a man and see how he has impacted the world, even those who do not “believe” in him, they know of him and his teachings and his ways.
Just a man – surrendered fully to the hands of the Potter, I can.
