Comedian and podcast host Russell Brand recently shared his reflections on his first three months as a Christian, expressing the struggle of feeling distant from Jesus Christ.
In a TikTok video posted this week, he admitted, “I’ve been a Christian for three months now, and sometimes it’s challenging. I feel as though Christ is far away and I don’t experience that close connection with Him.”
Despite this struggle, Brand turned to the Bible for solace, reading from 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 (New Living Translation), where the apostle Paul reprimands the Corinthian church for its division and lack of maturity.
“Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you, I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?”
Brand then said how he heard in church on Sunday about God’s continued work even when one cannot feel His presence.
“Even when I can’t feel God, God is working on me,” Brand said. “God is working me into the shape He needs me to be in.”
He then asked his viewers, “How do you cope when you feel that you’re not close to Christ?”
“Surely there’s more to this than just feeling okay,” he added. “If you wanna feel okay, drink a bunch, or take a bunch of drugs, or eat a load of candy for temporality at least. That will offer you some sort of salve of at least distraction.”
Brand has been open about his newfound conversion to Christianity, including being baptized at the River Thames earlier this year and taking his first communion.
In a recent interview with Neil Oliver posted to X, Brand says he is in the “business of serving Jesus Christ.”
“In surrendering to Christ, there is something extraordinary about saying there is this man, another man, entirely God, entirely man. But through some necessary, extraordinary, metaphysical act just beyond the edge of rational understanding, the Creator of this simulation came into the simulation and told us, ‘Hello, I am God. I’ve come here. Here are some virtues and values,’” Brand said.
As reported by The Christian Post, Brand shared a message once stated by author C.S. Lewis.
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