My own personal connection with Jesus Christ!

My own personal connection with Jesus Christ

Most people are likely to have heard that making Jesus a personal friend is the uppermost thematic explanation of true love and adherence with God.  It is the closest any one of us can reach Christ beyond the everyday existence of just praying without any realistic understanding of a personal relationship.  

Look at the crucifix and stare for more than a moment,  What do you see?  Very few people will answer nothing more than an image reminding us of the Crucifixion.  Beyond that the view is just what we always see without any significant reality.  The truth is if our connection to Christ goes beyond an artifact that hangs in the area around the altar we are on our way to uncovering the deeper understanding of this Cross that removed our eternal sin.  

There is a silent entity that surrounds the realism of who Jesus was and is still the same when he came into our element of humanity.  What confounds this reality is we cannot see or touch the person of Christ  2000 years after his crucifixion/resurrection.  It has become a story that seems to elude our comprehension of pictures or recordings of his flesh or voice.  

In order to relate ourselves with a serious outlook of finding a personal relationship we must go far beyond a real person standing and speaking audibly to us.  Thomas answered and said to him, “  My Lord and my God.”   The Lord said, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?  Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”  (Jn 20: 28 -29).

When you hear the words of the Lord within your heart and believe, you have taken the first step of a friend who has initiated a realistic dialogue through your spiritual answer of accepting, it is Christ through his Holy Spirit, opening a manner of deepening that personal connection.  I have heard these words many times and have come to believe how deep the conversation that the Lord reaches into the depth of our listening to him is.

One must be open to the many times the Lord will tell us something that might stay with us forever.  One time as I prayed as a night adorer before the Sacred Heart, when a scream so deadly occurred outside and upon looking there was nobody there.  Upon returning to my prayers I heard the voice of the Lord, clear and succinct, tell me; “3 AM is when the most evil is perpetrated on humans, the scream came for the depths of hell, and remember to pray for the poor souls in purgatory.”   I have tucked this message in my mind and through many other times before and after this message and have come to receive the words of Christ many times.  Does he tell me who will win a sports contest or who will win an election?  Of course not.  But throughout my ministry from the earliest days I have come to recognize the word of God deep in my soul.  I know when he is speaking and adhere to his warnings, convictions, and ability to write on a daily basis.  

Sitting down to write has been one of the answers as to what to write about.  His guidance tells me to sit and begin to write.  The title will enter my thoughts and the rest is history.  This is but one example of how the Lord will speak to us and he expects a response from the inner-voice of my personal friend, Jesus Christ.

Ralph B. Hathaway