How we are inspired by Jesus Christ!

How we are Inspired by Jesus Christ!

In itself, inspiration comes through an inner-connection from viewed beauty, music touching our heart strings, a written completion of mystery, or someone's example of heroism.  No two persons can be touched in the same exact manner, but the result of their encounter can be alike through the repetition of the common giftedness they’ve experienced.

Spiritually we always want to be moved by the suggestive manner that our senses receive.   Then we place ourselves on the giving end of humanity’s ability to share as well as the ones we’ve encountered through a receptive gift of repeating to more people.

Through Jesus, our first teacher of God’s plan to bring us home, there are many designs of his words that can be endearing to our hearts and minds that we may call inspiring.  The first step, however, requires our complete attachment to his Holy Being that without it will not resonate with his message.  

If you listen to a musical production that should create a feeling of peacefulness to your ears, but are not inclined to feel moved by the flow of the musical scale, the inspiration accepted by those to your right and left, will not be as inspiring as others feel.  The same scenario will also not inspire us if the depth of Christ’s persona is absent.

Then, how do we find an inspiring essence from Christ when we do not reach into the very presence of the Holy Spirit who resides within our persona and is constantly pulling at our sense of the divine God to move away from earthly pleasures to the reality of God himself?

Perhaps the answer to so many mysteries regarding God lies beyond the belief that there is something far greater than our own abilities to create anything as a human being.  If the masters of music, writers such as Augustine and Acquinas, or anyone else who trusted in God’s inborn gifts the Holy Spirit gave us were not here we would still be in the stone age of humanity going nowhere.  The plan of God to forgive us is still in a void of nothingness and the “mighty wind has yet to sweep across the waters of creation.  (Gn 1: 1).

When Christ appeared through the Incarnation, he didn’t arrive as a puppeteer to guide our every move established by the Holy Trinity.  Instead he took the reins that we always look for and handed them to each of us.  He set the example and said, “Here are the gifts to advance the world with my help, but you will be my hands and voice to seek goodness and forgiveness through divine examples.  Bring others to me and the innovations of grace shall be in your hands as I guide your abilities to share my love throughout the world.  This is the inspiration that I have passed on to my creatures both here and in eternity.  Do not stand back and wait for someone else to do what I have handed to you.”

We are inspired by Jesus Christ who became one like us without sin to create his world of humanity and divinity in one cup of salvation.  The two elements of God and Man are inspiration enough to complete the world that eternity promises.  Get off the chair that holds us back and find the essence that is the inspiration that comes from Jesus Christ.

Ralph B. Hathaway