By Gonny 
Let’s get one thing straight: Jesus never asked for a pedestal. In fact, he’s probably up there somewhere sighing, “Oh no… not another golden statue, please. Just listen to me.”
Jesus isn’t interested in being idolized. He’s not our spiritual celebrity crush. He’s our big brother. The one who figured it out a little earlier than we did. You know, like that sibling who already knows how to ride a bike and is now trying to show us without letting us fall on our faces too often.
He didn’t come to say, “Look at me, I’m divine, and you’re not.” He came to say, “You are divine…you just forgot.”
Jesus is the manifestation of God, not because God chose him like some divine lottery winner, but because Jesus remembered the truth of who he was. And here’s the good news (which is really great news): if he remembered it, so can we. That’s the whole point.
In the light of A Course in Miracles, Jesus isn’t a distant savior doing all the work for us. He’s the voice gently reminding us, “You don’t need saving, you need awakening.” He’s walked the dream before and now he’s whispering from beyond time, “Hey, it’s all a dream. You can wake up now. I’ll show you.”
There’s this sweet idea that before Jesus started sharing his message, he may have studied in the East….learned from mystics, meditated, listened deeply. Whether that’s historically accurate or not, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that he listened within. And what he found there was God. Not somewhere in the clouds, but in the stillness of his own mind.
And guess what? That stillness is in us, too.
He manifested God not by magic, but by alignment. By surrendering the ego’s voice and choosing only love. Every time. (Okay, maybe not when he flipped those tables in the temple, but hey, big brothers can get dramatic too.)
So here’s the miracle: Jesus says you can do this. You are not the exception. You are the purpose. The reason he came was to show you how to go home. Not by dying, but by living in awareness.
He’s not waving from some unreachable mountaintop. He’s walking beside us, grinning. And every time we choose love over fear, we hear him a little clearer.
That’s the kind of big brother I like. Not perfect in the sense of unattainable, but perfect in love and patient with our spiritual toddler steps.
So let’s not worship the symbol, let’s follow the message. Not to become him, but to become as God created us : whole, holy, and free.
And next time you feel a little lost, just whisper: “Okay, big bro, lead the way.”
He’s already smiling.
With love and light,
G.