My first post here. Let’s see...OK..Why does the Hebrew/Christian god require slavish worship and praise from his/her subjects? Logically, a PERFECT being would be above all that.
Am I missing something here?
Barkhorn.
Because we are not perfect, therefor should not act like we are above God. Should we make God feel like a hypocrite for allowing such things?
God has patience with us, cause he wants everyone to be saved.
God wants us to join Him again, cause some of us are lost. He is after all our creator, should we obey the government but not Him?
You can replace "the government" with anything you obey, the prouder you are, the less real - unless you have what it takes to back it up. Don't show yourself over your ability - unless you are "becoming".
Serving God shouldn't be seen as slavery though, since a slave is looked upon with (disgrace?) and seen as
almost human by his master. While God see us in our true light and understands our faults.
It's my belief that we meet the one we serve. You don't want to be judged unjustly. Let Jesus be your lawyer, he knows you, he has
felt you and been with you every step of the way.
The bible talks about the choice between God and Mammon, with Mammon as a symbol of money and things that are "physical" and of no value in itself. While God is the living God. True and just.
But why obey anything at all?
Because we need to do something. We need a purpouse, something to pursue, and many of us haven't got enough trust to believe in our own mission. So we need a 'helper' to tell us that we are on the right track in life. Most people are blind. They haven't opened their eyes yet. To see where they really are. It is so easy to get lost, even the smallest event changes everything.
Now you may ask:
But I am doing something...just not obeying, I don't need a mission of that kind, I have things to do in life anyway, busy with work and relations (inside work and outside). Why do we need to go in a mission that we don't feel the need to?
We will allways be on a mission. If you walk away from your mission, you walk into another. The reason you don't feel a need to do a mission, may be because you've allready made the mission a part of your life - you just don't know it - or it's because you at some point in your life decided that it was impossible to accomplish...don't let yourself down, cause the mission isn't only for God it is for you too! To get rid of your faults and to enable eternal life. Cause God isn't the God of the dead, He is a God for the living, the living God. What seems impossible to you, isn't impossible for God.
The mission is never beyond our ability to make it. We all get our "paychecks", some in life, some after life. See life as a oppertunity to change while you still can. The only thing we have to do is try and trust. Where trust is the hard part.
I see it as someone that runs in the darkness, while it is dark he doesn't know if he is on the right track or not, but the important thing is that he keeps running and that he trust God to lead him right since he himself have no way of knowing the right track. Then the light comes and he see that he is on the other side of a wide gap and realizes that he ran over nothing. If he had seen that there was nothing were he ran, then he would fall since he wouldn't believe enough but now since he trusted God he is on the other side.
This is to show that there can actually be a
reason why appearently unnecessary things happen, even though the reason cannot be clearly seen at this time.
This is not necessarily a picture of the common truth, but is a picture of what I believe as true at this time of my life. Though it's true for
me, I'm sure there's something in this post that fit
you.
