Coca-cola advertisements have gone through phases which could be used to label a person’s spiritual journey. A couple of decades ago, the tag-line was “It’s the real thing.” Recently, they came up with “Coke-light”. Now there is “Coke-zero.”
A person’s spiritual journey can begin with the real thing and end up in a zero. This can happen in two contrasting ways.
The first way is when the “real thing” is a genuine vital relationship with God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Down the road however what was real then becomes Christianity-light. This is when our relationship and faith in the Lord have not gone deeper but rather remains rather superficial. It is like seeds sown on stony ground and among thorns (Mark 4:1-20). It is just a matter of time before our faith ends up with nothing that can stand the test of trials and tribulations that buffet us in our work, finances, and personal relationships. We have reached zero.
The opposite way of reading these slogans to our lives is to see that what we started out with believing to be the “real-thing” is actually nothing more than just tasty stuff without any substance. It is actually zero in terms of spirituality. When one has come to this realisation, then the journey continues with lightening one’s dependence on such superficiality. A gradual process moves one from zero to light and then to the real thing. At this final point, one becomes totally dependent on God alone. This zero in a good sense: one has learned to throw off what was artificially “real” to the point of being totally dependent what is truly the “real thing” – God Himself.
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