The coma..
How could someone says he love god, but then he doesn't love some people? It is like saying you can love something you cannot see but couldn't love something you can see. Why is that? My ways of looking at humans is always one, humans are all selfish. Always! In any situation. It is always me first, and everyone else second even if it appears otherwise. God seems easier to love doesn't it? In most cases, god doesn't stop you from doing things, doesn't argue with you, doesn't trick you nor shout at you. Whereas humans on the other hands are different and they do whatever the opposite of what it is that the current relationship man has with god.
Is this how it should be? Christianity says `love your enemies'. In other words, love is definitely not easy in the this context. And if loving is easy in your life, then you really have to re-evaluate whether or not you are living the word or your word. There is, a vast difference!
Oh sure you can love the guy next door in a coma, he won't fight with you over anything, he just shuts up no matter what you say, and silence usually amounts to `ok I am with you'. And finally God's will becomes our own silent will. The illusionary will we self created. If anything was to be god's intend I would rather believe that making us love humans and making another human irritate us is all in his scope of studies for any of us. Yes, you don't expect god to come telling you, no I don't agree with you, why are you so stupid can you grow up get a job, and your girlfriend, she is low. Now you will start to get offended. What if god was one of us. What if someone you see today and irritates you, and you just cursed him up and down and at the end of the day, someone tells you, that was god in disguise? The ultimate answer would be, no that wouldn't be god because god being god will not do things like that, those are low things, those are evil things. You can go ahead and think like that, but start not to contradict the teaching in anyway. It is said that god is kind and god is love, yes...but they also say god is a jealous god, and also god's action and intend is beyond human's comprehension. For crying out loud you don't even know how god looks like or what colour he is, what makes you think you know him and know how he might behave or how he does things? Just cause you have a book called the bible that supposedly record million of years of his works? Think again if you want to believe that god is just the bible and nothing more, you're probably belittling him isn't it? And now suddenly god the almighty is someone you know, someone predictable, someone you can have a foresight of what he will and will not do? Don't think like that my friends. God does not need anyone to create an excuse for what he does and does not do. Even if he appears in the form of humans to test you, DO NOT give reason and say god will not be so and he can not do that? Hey, you just said he was almighty and don't you think he can do anything and perhaps he's doing something we don't even expect? So now he's beyond our expectation and suddenly you know what he will and will not do? If he is just what you think he will do, doesn't that make you higher than him and you the almighty all knowing? Don't put out possibilities of what god is and what god can do. Otherwise, don't say god is great. Because if he can only do what you think he can do or what the bible has spoken of him, and that is his limit. Doesn't he now be more like a robot and the bible, a manual for his operations? He is good says the bible. And now you interpret it as, no he won't come down pretend as a human and trick me into losing my temper to see what I will do. Suddenly the part where we always talk about that we do not know what he will do comes in handy. When one's life, a good man, charitable, loving suddenly is taken away from his beloved and what do you want to say about it? He's bad? NO! Same reason, we have no idea why he does what he did. Just because you think it is a bad thing, doesn't mean it is to him because you forgot, ultimate intend lies in his decision and scope of understanding....NOT YOURS. By the way, the bible consist of many things he is, but it also does not limit what he is. So do decide on what you want your god to be. To be the god which has a manual to tell you how to operate with you( the bible ) or the manual is nothing but a brief introduction of what he could actually do but not what all he can do, and it doesn't limits the `him'. If you've read the bible and can suddenly come out to tell what god can and will do and its impossible for him to do this nor that, then stop telling people god is great because that book no matter how thick it is, limits him and not only that it limits him, it already enables you to know him in and out ( I always thought it was suppose to be the other way round, cause we did not create him? ).
So back to the original point.....if you find it hard to love another but you could love his creator, stop being a hypocryte! For once stop giving excuses..and start doing something. It is easy to love god and not human. Did god tells you loving is going to be easy? No, it tells you everything but easy...and that is suppose to be life of christians, and if the loving you have in your life is easy...you have got to relook your love and start loving also the difficult to love and be Christ like. You do not choose who to love, you just love them all. Its easier to love the guy in coma, one who cannot fight, argues, or defend you in words you can hear or actions you can see. Stop making god a coma guy by loving him and not everything he created. This article has got nothing to do with seeking for acceptance nor asking for correction. Its an article to be read, so read and choose. It only asked you to think. Not come up with another excuse of how this is not right. If its not right you go on and live the life you thought it was right, after all, life's simpler if its your way isn't it? Anything which is difficult to do, we shut it out and find reasons for it. If you think its right, isn't it time to make some changes?
Just for the record, humans are full of excuses and reasons. Try to observe yourself or another daily and see how many times people give reasons for everything, and use the word, "..because, but then, however..."
Is this how it should be? Christianity says `love your enemies'. In other words, love is definitely not easy in the this context. And if loving is easy in your life, then you really have to re-evaluate whether or not you are living the word or your word. There is, a vast difference!
Oh sure you can love the guy next door in a coma, he won't fight with you over anything, he just shuts up no matter what you say, and silence usually amounts to `ok I am with you'. And finally God's will becomes our own silent will. The illusionary will we self created. If anything was to be god's intend I would rather believe that making us love humans and making another human irritate us is all in his scope of studies for any of us. Yes, you don't expect god to come telling you, no I don't agree with you, why are you so stupid can you grow up get a job, and your girlfriend, she is low. Now you will start to get offended. What if god was one of us. What if someone you see today and irritates you, and you just cursed him up and down and at the end of the day, someone tells you, that was god in disguise? The ultimate answer would be, no that wouldn't be god because god being god will not do things like that, those are low things, those are evil things. You can go ahead and think like that, but start not to contradict the teaching in anyway. It is said that god is kind and god is love, yes...but they also say god is a jealous god, and also god's action and intend is beyond human's comprehension. For crying out loud you don't even know how god looks like or what colour he is, what makes you think you know him and know how he might behave or how he does things? Just cause you have a book called the bible that supposedly record million of years of his works? Think again if you want to believe that god is just the bible and nothing more, you're probably belittling him isn't it? And now suddenly god the almighty is someone you know, someone predictable, someone you can have a foresight of what he will and will not do? Don't think like that my friends. God does not need anyone to create an excuse for what he does and does not do. Even if he appears in the form of humans to test you, DO NOT give reason and say god will not be so and he can not do that? Hey, you just said he was almighty and don't you think he can do anything and perhaps he's doing something we don't even expect? So now he's beyond our expectation and suddenly you know what he will and will not do? If he is just what you think he will do, doesn't that make you higher than him and you the almighty all knowing? Don't put out possibilities of what god is and what god can do. Otherwise, don't say god is great. Because if he can only do what you think he can do or what the bible has spoken of him, and that is his limit. Doesn't he now be more like a robot and the bible, a manual for his operations? He is good says the bible. And now you interpret it as, no he won't come down pretend as a human and trick me into losing my temper to see what I will do. Suddenly the part where we always talk about that we do not know what he will do comes in handy. When one's life, a good man, charitable, loving suddenly is taken away from his beloved and what do you want to say about it? He's bad? NO! Same reason, we have no idea why he does what he did. Just because you think it is a bad thing, doesn't mean it is to him because you forgot, ultimate intend lies in his decision and scope of understanding....NOT YOURS. By the way, the bible consist of many things he is, but it also does not limit what he is. So do decide on what you want your god to be. To be the god which has a manual to tell you how to operate with you( the bible ) or the manual is nothing but a brief introduction of what he could actually do but not what all he can do, and it doesn't limits the `him'. If you've read the bible and can suddenly come out to tell what god can and will do and its impossible for him to do this nor that, then stop telling people god is great because that book no matter how thick it is, limits him and not only that it limits him, it already enables you to know him in and out ( I always thought it was suppose to be the other way round, cause we did not create him? ).
So back to the original point.....if you find it hard to love another but you could love his creator, stop being a hypocryte! For once stop giving excuses..and start doing something. It is easy to love god and not human. Did god tells you loving is going to be easy? No, it tells you everything but easy...and that is suppose to be life of christians, and if the loving you have in your life is easy...you have got to relook your love and start loving also the difficult to love and be Christ like. You do not choose who to love, you just love them all. Its easier to love the guy in coma, one who cannot fight, argues, or defend you in words you can hear or actions you can see. Stop making god a coma guy by loving him and not everything he created. This article has got nothing to do with seeking for acceptance nor asking for correction. Its an article to be read, so read and choose. It only asked you to think. Not come up with another excuse of how this is not right. If its not right you go on and live the life you thought it was right, after all, life's simpler if its your way isn't it? Anything which is difficult to do, we shut it out and find reasons for it. If you think its right, isn't it time to make some changes?
Just for the record, humans are full of excuses and reasons. Try to observe yourself or another daily and see how many times people give reasons for everything, and use the word, "..because, but then, however..."
posted by wilson at 8:20 PM
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Man, how imperfect are we humans!
It's so hard for us to love one another, especially our enemies.
But again, THANK GOD He, the Almighty, the Omnipresent, Abba Father, Creator of Time and the Universe, did not give up on us little wretches.
Adam & Eve sinned against God. Have you ever wondered why the heck didn't God just wipe those two off the face of the earth and humanity can start all over again? The answer is obvious ... God didn't and never will give up on us, no matter how flawed we are. How deep is the Father's love for us, goes one song.
We were at first created perfect in a sense, but with free will. Adam & Eve used their free will to sin against God. And when they sin, in a way they mutated spiritually. Thus we humans carry a 'DNA' that was never meant to be there in the first place.
But you see, as I said before, God didn't just leave us there. God was still with us. Rituals and burnt offerings were means to compensate for our spiritual deficiency. Of course, come to think of it, NOTHING materialistic can make us right before God. "The wages of sin is death" says one verse in the Bible. But God, in his mercy, lowered it down a bit and accepted these offerings. Then of course you know Jesus came, died for our sins, became the Sacrificed Lamb for the Sin Offering of the world and resurrected from death. We don't deserve such mercy, frankly speaking.
Since God has shown us such love and mercy to us, why shouldn't we show the same to our fellow humans? Yes we humans are imperfect, selfish - but should we continue degrading our brethrens/ourselves and show them/ourselves no love?
In hating our brethrens who do not love we become like them ... there's no difference. And believe me, I've come a lot of people, Christians and non-Christians alike who defy that thought and love people who didn't love them in the first place.
You heard of Jim Elliot, the Christian missionary who was murdered? Heard about how his wife reacted?
If God didn't give up on us, why give up on our brothers?
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The answer is as easy as because we're not God if you hadn't already notice, and if I could be like him, I wouldn't need to have this conversation with you either. All of us talked like we know how God would react and how his amazing will is without ever realizing we're creating him day by day. Do remember he does not exist because of us, we exist because of him. People should stop making him up, and start letting him make you. Stop saying how he is, how he would, and how he would be. If you want to start to show the world what God can really do, start by doing something which nobody is trying hard enough to even do. The hard way, by keeping your words shut in yourself, and showing love in your actions. Nothing is impossible through God right? Do it! Saying and preaching is the easier way out, and it doesn't work on me anymore. I do wonder why this and that happens in God's plan but I do not have answer to it, and I was told to beware of people who always has answer to God's action. There's no obvious answer in God's work, and because we kept trying to go above that standard thinking we know God, we're going to always have to start again. Perhaps you might even wonder why God makes so many languages today too huh? And we finally master those languages and today we're planning, assuming what God is again. So stop with the preaching go with the doing. It all takes time. I'll give you guys 40 years or as long as I live to let you show that you are as sacrificial and has already understood God more than I do and that you were right all this while. Jesus didn't do it this way, he showed it! So for everyone who reads this, stop saying and start acting. I have had 3 friends, who vowed to never stepped into church because of Christians who speak too much of God and how the devil is. And from the 3, one of them hate christians because of how their words sound offensive when they try to correct a non christian. Young is your age, you have many more years to see. See it, then come back to me in 20 years. Bless you.
Oh, have you noticed that since the truth shall set you free, and God is the truth and we will eventually become one with God and finally unknowingly we became the truth?? Many of us reading too much of the bible tends to think we know it all, the more you think you have already known, you'd be surprise to find out you actually knew nothing one day. Try not to be God as my once upon a time church was told, and let God be God as we be man, who works...and our fruits will show his work. First show me your fruit, and you have shown me the work. Of course its difficult...who told you its easy?
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