"'The gloves are off, God.', 'God has taken my bird and my bush.', 'God is a mean kid with a magnifying glass.', 'Smite me, O Mighty Smiter.' Now, I'm not big on blasphemy, but that last one made me laugh."- God in Bruce Almighty.
Millions dying - poor health, no fresh water or enough food. Millions suffering - sickness digesting person after person with pain and weakness. There are many ungodly wars within nations, within towns, within homes. The innocent unborn are slaughtered: their frail bodies disposed of as if they were soulless vermin - As if to say " How dare they invade our women's bodies!"
On the flip side, Millions of dollars - all in one person's bank account. Millions of warm houses - when so many are without. The wealthy are controlling corporations, corporations controlling the dollar, the dollar controlling the people. Some people couldn't imagine a life without Limos and Ferraris, beach houses and mobile devices. There are thriving people who have nothing better to do with their money than to burn holes in their pockets.
Look at this disgusting contrast. We know it needs fixed!!! So, where is our hero? Where is our savior to change the world when obviously those who are going to help are already doing all they can? A nation crumbling, a world turned on its ear; who can fix these tragedies and level the playing field for us all? Politicians talk big, but we need bigger! We have a beautiful earth blooming each day the new possibilities, but who is able to get themselves out of their mud huts and cardboard box houses long enough to find them when there is food to be put on the table, death to be grieved, and cities to be burned?
Where is this being we call God? How dare He sit on His Almighty thrown, watching us spin aimlessly! He has every power and every thought of knowledge! Could He not be the hero we need so desperately? I mean, after all, it would just take a snap of His fingers. If He loves us so much, He should give us a more perfect world without all of this misery and decay, right?
Perhaps God is too "high and mighty" to lend a hand to us lowly sons of mad men. He must just be too good to step off the hill, put down the magnifying glass and help us little poor ants.
We can't help but think this way when we are living in the middle of the mess. To share my thoughts on the subject, I'll just start by asking how many of you would still kneel before God if the world was perfect? Honestly, there would be no need for Him! If everything was cured and we lived in a perfect world, we would be living like gods ourselves. We would be self-minded because there would be no need to care for anyone beyond ourselves. Or at least, there would be no worries about the world. There would be no hunger. There would be no sweat on our brows because there would be no worries. There would be no more stifling work to make the world a better place because it would already be a better place.
But, didn't God give us a perfect earth once before? Turn that front cover open to Genesis when God first created the world; so perfect, so beautiful, and He gave Adams and Eve such simple instruction to keep the earth. In turn, the earth would keep them and they would walk forever in the garden. However, the same imperfect nature that allows us to stoop was also inside Eve. (Face it, we sin because we are not perfect. Its inevitable because sin is imperfection and imperfection is only from our sins... another blog another time...)
We all know how the story of Eve's first sin ends... It ends here -so far anyway. Yep. That perfect world that was once just handed to us is long gone due to the byproduct of our sins, day after day and century after century. We suffer because we have created suffering.
Still, you can ask questions. Couldn't God help just a little more than He already is - you know, a bit more than the grace and guidance He's already gives us? Would it kill Him to push the reset button once in a while to relieve some of our pain and suffering? What if we promise to still "need" Him afterwards? We could promise to love Him even MORE if He just does us this one tiny itty bitty little microscopic favor of fixing the world.
Why are we asking God to fix the world!? He gives us life, He gives us resources, He gives us love and the opportunity to have one on one relationships with Him, in His Highness. We are filthy. We have ruined the most perfect gifts He has ever given us without fail. Sure, some get off pretty lucky, in those beach houses. We all wish at times we were the kind who get to relax in a heated leather limo seat, watching the fuzzy dice bounce against the distant windshield carelessly. However, God knows the hearts and the deeds of anyone, poor or wealthy by any standard. Are we forgetting about the eternal side of things? Where we go when this earth does not bind us anymore could be a perfect world or a hell beyond what we can imagine. A starving child in Africa whose parents have never learned as much as their ABCs could live forever in a place of plenty because of his faith. On the contrary, a millionaire whose life was handed to him on a silver plate could go down in eternal flames for the selfishness he held in his heart. This doesn't sound very unfair to me in the big scheme of things.
My grief and sorrows have brought me closer to God. Matter of fact, it wasn't until I was mad at God for my miseries, did I believe in Him.
Recall just reading this? : "Perhaps God is too 'high and mighty' to lend a hand to us lowly sons of mad men. He must just be too good to step off the hill, put down the magnifying glass and help us little poor ants."
I will say this only once, We killed our savior the first time, what makes us think we'll appreciate another one?
Jesus came - perfect and Holy. Though he had never sinned, he washed our ugly world with his brutally shed blood. Yet we complain about our lives? We complain about evil? I pity the men who dwell only in the pains, sorrows, pleasures and feelings of the world. They are thinking they must be saved on earth! But I tell you, no one can save them but the One whom they spite for giving them life in the first place.
God Bless & Goodnight.
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keep it clean. :)