🕊️ The Living Christ: Not a Statue, Not a Story
🕊️ The Living Christ: Not a Statue, Not a Story
There was a story floating around recently—about the actor who plays Jesus in The Chosen having some mystical encounter in Prague. Turns out, it wasn’t factual. A clip, a rumor, maybe even AI-generated.
But here’s the thing: even if the event wasn’t literal, the message struck people because it touched a longing that runs deep—the desire to know that death isn’t the end, that love endures, that Christ is real and near.
🎬 Why The Chosen Matters
Say what you will about it, but The Chosen did something few films have ever done:
It reminded the world that Jesus wasn’t a stained-glass icon, or a marble statue, or a distant cosmic figure. He was real. He laughed. He worked. He walked dusty roads with friends. He looked people in the eyes.
That matters, because too much of Christianity has drifted into statue worship. Gothic cathedrals lined with frozen figures, candles before carved stone. And yet the Risen Lord Himself says:
“Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen” (Luke 24:5–6).
We don’t need a cold statue. We need the Living Christ.
🌿 Death Is Swallowed Up in Christ
Even if the story about Prague isn’t true, the truths it tried to teach are everywhere in scripture:
“Death is swallowed up in Christ” (Mosiah 16:8).
“Charity never faileth” (1 Corinthians 13:8).
“This is the way, and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved” (2 Nephi 31:21).
And the Nemenhah bear the same witness. Moroni (Mohrhohnahyah) wrote:
“Death is but the putting off of the corruptible, that the spirit may be clothed with the incorruptible.”
Death isn’t the end. Love doesn’t die. Christ is the one who gives peace.
🌌 More Than Tradition
I’ve lived enough pain to learn this the hard way.
Through divorce.
Through heartache with children.
Through the long nights of questioning.
And I discovered something: not all traditions are true. Some point us away from Christ instead of to Him. The “true church” isn’t in a building, a budget, or a program. It’s spiritual. It’s written in the heart. It’s made of living souls who hear His voice and follow.
The Savior Himself warned:
“They draw near unto me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matthew 15:8–9).
🤝 A Friend, Not a Figure
Here’s the good news: we don’t have to wait until death to know Him.
We can walk with Him now.
He isn’t marble. He isn’t locked in stained glass. He isn’t waiting for some distant judgment day.
He’s alive. Present. Personal.
You can talk with Him.
You can tell Him jokes.
You can ask Him questions.
You can feel Him answer.
You can walk the road of your life with Him at your side.
This is what the Nemenhah remind us:
“This is the Way. Walk in it, and you shall find the Peacemaker, and He shall walk with you.” (AYAHTKUHYAHT NEMENHAH, Tsihohnayah Ahkehkthihm 13.
🌱 So What Do We Do?
We stop chasing cold statues.
We stop bowing to systems and traditions that keep Him at a distance.
We start listening for His voice.
We start letting Him into the ordinary, everyday life—meals, laughter, prayers, tears.
And in doing so, we discover what He promised all along:
“Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world” (Matthew 28:20).
🔑 The Point
The Prague story may have been fiction.
But the truths it pointed toward are eternal.
Death is a doorway.
Love is forever.
Christ is alive.
And He is not marble, not myth, not memory—
He is the Living Christ, and He is willing to walk with us today. 🕊️
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