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Written by Jami Amerine, a contemporary author.

When I found out I wasn’t following the real Jesus, I was totally undone. The hard work of making Jesus fit my brain, answer when I called, and label me righteous was a full-time job that robbed me of peace. When I finally fell into the loving arms of the real Jesus, I began a genuine relationship with the Savior of the world—the One who died for me. He is everything He promised and so much more. Our culture presents us with so many versions of Jesus, letting us make Him in our own image. Maybe you’ve come to depend on a false Jesus and didn’t even realize it. False versions of Jesus people keep falling for include: a mean Jesus, a political Jesus who would vote one way, a genie in a bottle Jesus, an I’ll punish you Jesus, a Jesus who brings struggles you can’t handle, a distant Jesus, a church Jesus you lose faith in when a church fails, a transactional rule-based Jesus, and a confused Jesus. If you are struggling to find peace, consider what Jesus said about Himself and test your beliefs against the truth from Scripture.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. [2 Timothy 4:3-4]