🌿 THE WAY — NOT A SYSTEM, BUT A VOICE A Gentle Walk Toward Jesus Christ
🌿 THE WAY — NOT A SYSTEM, BUT A VOICE
A Gentle Walk Toward Jesus Christ
By The True Remnant
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🌿 INTRODUCTION
A Year of Walking
Over the last year, I spent countless hours writing.
Questioning.
Studying.
Walking.
Praying.
Thinking.
Sometimes wrestling.
Sometimes resting.
And much of that journey unfolded through ordinary conversations.
Simple reflections.
Stories.
Scriptures.
Questions that slowly became pathways.
What surprised me most was that the journey gradually became less about collecting answers…
And more about becoming honest.
More peaceful.
More centered in Christ.
There were moments during this year where old fears began loosening.
Moments where grace became more real.
Moments where I realized the Lord was not asking me to become spiritually impressive.
He was teaching me how to walk with Him.
Looking back now, I can see that this entire walk slowly moved in one direction:
Toward Jesus Christ.
Not away from Him.
Toward simplicity.
Toward peace.
Toward relationship.
Toward learning to hear His voice more clearly.
🌿 CHAPTER ONE
Something Felt Missing
I still remember sitting quietly at times during church meetings.
Listening.
Watching.
Trying sincerely to feel spiritually alive.
And while I often felt goodness there… I also felt a strange hunger underneath it all.
A feeling I could not fully explain.
Almost like standing near a beautiful river… but somehow never fully stepping into the water.
That feeling stayed with me for years.
Not anger.
Not rebellion.
Just hunger.
A quiet longing for something more living.
More personal.
More connected to Christ Himself.
At first, I honestly carried some bitterness.
Questions can do that sometimes.
Especially when you feel afraid to ask them out loud.
I remember seasons where my mind constantly wrestled.
Reading.
Studying.
Comparing.
Thinking.
Trying to sort through contradictions and feelings I could no longer ignore.
There were moments I felt frustrated.
Moments I felt disappointed.
Moments where I probably pushed too hard trying to explain things to others.
But over time, the Lord began softening me.
And strangely enough, much of that softening happened during ordinary moments.
Quiet walks.
Simple prayers.
Reading scripture slowly.
Thinking.
Repenting.
Letting go.
I slowly realized something important:
Kindergarten is not evil because it is kindergarten.
It simply is not the final destination.
That realization changed me.
Suddenly I no longer needed to hate where I had come from in order to continue growing.
I could appreciate the good… while still recognizing the invitation to keep walking.
🌿 CHAPTER TWO
The Walk Itself Changes Us
I remember one season especially where I began taking long quiet walks simply to think and pray.
Not formal prayers.
Not polished prayers.
Just honest conversations with God.
Sometimes confused.
Sometimes peaceful.
Sometimes emotional.
Sometimes simply quiet.
And strangely enough, many of the deepest shifts in my life did not happen during dramatic moments at all.
They happened while walking.
Thinking.
Letting the noise settle.
Letting fear slowly loosen.
Letting the Lord untangle things inside me little by little.
The walk itself changes us.
The quiet prayers.
The surrender.
The softening.
The repentance.
The listening.
The ordinary moments where Christ slowly teaches the heart.
🌿 CHAPTER THREE
Repentance Means Come Closer
For years, repentance often felt heavy.
Like carrying spiritual shame.
Like constantly failing.
Like never quite measuring up.
I think many sincere religious people quietly feel this.
Trying.
Trying harder.
Wondering why peace still feels distant.
But slowly the Lord began teaching me something gentler.
Repentance means:
Come closer.
Turn toward Him.
Let go.
Return.
Receive.
Breathe.
Grace also began changing for me.
Not as permission to ignore discipleship.
But as the very thing making relationship with Christ possible.
I began realizing:
The Lord was not asking me to save myself first.
He was asking me to walk with Him.
And over time, that realization softened something deep inside me.
The gospel began feeling less like constant pressure…
And more like learning how to live near Jesus.
🌿 CHAPTER FOUR
Hearing the Voice
There came a point in my journey where one question slowly began rising above all the others.
Am I actually learning to hear the Lord?
That question changed everything.
Because once a person begins sincerely asking that question… many outward things begin losing some of their power.
Fear starts loosening.
Performance starts softening.
Constant comparison begins fading.
And the heart slowly turns toward relationship.
I stopped reading merely to gather information.
I began reading to hear Him.
The Book of Mormon especially began feeling less like a religious assignment…
And more like an invitation.
Christ seemed to emerge from its pages differently.
More living.
More direct.
More personal.
Over time, I began noticing that many people—including myself at times—can accidentally become dependent on borrowed light.
Living mostly on:
Other people’s certainty.
Other people’s experiences.
Other people’s relationship with God.
But eventually every soul must learn to stand before God honestly.
Not pretending.
Not performing.
But listening.
Personally.
🌿 CHAPTER FIVE
Nothing Needs To Be Proved
One of the strangest things that happened during this journey was that I slowly lost the desire to constantly fight.
Not because truth stopped mattering.
Truth matters deeply.
But because I began realizing something important:
People rarely change because they are cornered.
Most people change when they feel safe enough to be honest.
The goal stopped becoming:
“How do I win this argument?”
And slowly became:
“How do I help people feel Christ more clearly?”
That is a very different spirit.
I stopped trying to force awakenings.
Stopped trying to push people faster than they were ready to move.
Stopped needing immediate agreement.
And instead, I began trying to simply:
Love.
Listen.
Walk peacefully.
Answer gently when asked.
And trust the Lord with timing.
The deeper I walked with the Lord, the more one simple phrase kept returning to my heart:
Nothing needs to be proved.
Not because truth does not exist.
But because genuine truth eventually carries its own light.
🌿 CHAPTER SIX
The Nemenhah Witness
As my journey continued, something unexpected entered my life.
The Nemenhah Records.
At first, I approached them cautiously.
Honestly.
Carefully.
I did not want excitement.
I wanted truth.
And more importantly…
I wanted Christ.
Over time, however, something surprising began happening.
As I read the records carefully, many of the things I had already been quietly learning through scripture, prayer, struggle, and personal seeking began appearing again.
Not pulling me away from Jesus Christ.
But pointing me back toward Him.
Again and again.
I began noticing themes that deeply resonated with the walk the Lord had already been teaching my heart:
The importance of hearing the Voice.
The simplicity of the Doctrine of Christ.
The danger of spiritual pride.
Consecration.
Living Zion.
Walking peacefully.
The possibility of ordinary people drawing near to God.
For me personally, these records became additional witnesses confirming many things the Lord had already been teaching my heart through the scriptures and through lived experience.
Not replacing Jesus Christ.
But standing as additional witnesses pointing toward Him.
🌿 FINAL CHAPTER
Walking Gently With Christ
As the years passed, I slowly began realizing something beautiful.
The deeper the walk became…
The simpler it often became too.
Not simplistic.
But centered.
Grounded.
Peaceful.
One of the greatest changes in my life happened when I stopped trying so hard to become spiritually “important”…
And started learning how to become spiritually real.
That changed everything.
I stopped viewing life primarily through categories.
“Us.”
“Them.”
“Awake.”
“Asleep.”
Instead, I began seeing wounded human beings.
Hungry human beings.
Searching human beings.
People carrying fears.
Families.
Struggles.
Questions.
Losses.
And hopes.
The true test of any teaching, church, movement, record, experience, or spiritual claim is ultimately very simple:
Does it bring us closer to Jesus Christ?
Does it help us love more deeply?
Forgive more freely?
Walk more honestly?
Become more humble?
More peaceful?
More real?
If not… then something essential has been lost.
Jesus Christ is real.
Closer than most people realize.
And He is still capable of guiding sincere people today.
🌿 FINAL THOUGHT
Perhaps the great invitation has always been simpler than we imagined.
Not merely to believe in Christ…
But to walk with Him.
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