Current podcast host, comedian, and former actor, Russell Brand, recently posted up a video where he shared an update concerning his first month as a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and it’s absolutely beautiful and inspiring. If you have been struggling with your faith for a bit or been going through a dry season in your relationship with God, you need to hear what Russell has to say.
His story will remind you of what it was like to first dedicate your life to Jesus and begin discovering the depth of His love for us, despite the fact we don’t deserve it.
“I’ve been a Christian a month now, and it’s been a big change,” the 48-year-old actor revealed in a recent TikTok video. “Not that I’ve entirely changed as a person. Of course, I haven’t, but I’ve taken on a lot of new concepts, and it changes you to accept that it’s not like you’re in a game show, and by doing really, really good things, you can get redeemed.”
Here is more from The Christian Post:
For Brand, he said the journey to Christianity has been about embracing the concept of repentance and acknowledging an internal struggle.
“Repentance, to repent, means that you have to continually change and acknowledge that ‘I am in a battle against myself,’ that I need to surrender myself to an ever-present, internal and accessible Jesus, that mercy is something that’s given to me, been granted to me, that I live with through love, not something that I can sort of win or achieve by doing good deeds,” he explained in the clip.
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The entertainer shared how his faith has brought “incredible” people and literature into his life, offering him a sense of peace and direction.
“When I’m in doubt, I feel that instruction is there, accessible. I feel like I know what I’m supposed to do, and when I don’t do what I’m supposed to do, that’s even clearer,” he stated. “When I feel myself being selfish or inconsiderate or putting myself first or not thinking about how I can be better to other people, it’s as if there is an inner illumination available to me now.”
The comedian-turned-philosopher then spoke about his own personal admiration for the simplicity, yet deeply profound nature of Christian theology and teaching, especially the narrative of Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity, coming to earth and sacrificing Himself on behalf of humanity, as that’s the only way we could be brought back home and made a part of God’s family.
“I love the simplicity of the idea of God coming to earth as a man to experience what it is to be human and to sacrifice Himself because that’s the only sacrifice that could bring us home, that could give us the opportunity for redemption,” he explained. “I like the idea, when I’m in prayer and in communion, just alone, that there is a figure available, wounded and coronated, available to me. In my failings and my failures and in my fallibility, there is strength.”
He then made it clear he’s only at the beginning of his faith journey and you can tell by the way he spoke in the video he’s really excited to learn more and grow.
“It’s a beautiful journey to go on,” he remarked in the TikTok post. “I know I’m just at the beginning. I know I’m just learning. I know there’s so much more to learn, and I’m so excited to learn more from you and for us to learn together.”
Brand was baptized in April and has been making a series of video posts on TikTok concerning his new walk down the path of Christianity for months now.
“I know a lot of people are sort of cynical about the increasing interest in Christianity and the return to God, but to me, it’s obvious,” he said one of the videos he published last month. “As meaning deteriorates in the modern world, as our value systems and institutions crumble, all of us become increasingly aware that there is this eerily familiar awakening and beckoning figure that we’ve all known all of our lives, within us and around us. And for me, it’s very exciting.”
So awesome.
Pray for Brand to continue growing in the faith and seeking the abundant life Jesus has for him.