Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Owning God
Human beings, the highest creature with a proper thinking faculty usually like to own things. The feeling of possession normally gives one the confidence that one can effect the outcome of situations. We always want things to be in our favor. As a result, we sometimes seek divine intervention in the pursuit of our goals. The interesting point here is that everybody thinks of the divine (whatever he/she conceives it be) as a being which should be in his/her favor. So, we all call on God as we pray. We pray as if we are the only ones that matter. Even when we pray for conflicting things from individual to individual, each prays as if God should only listen to him/her. We treat God as if we own him and He is bound to be in our favor. Do we confuse God with conflicting requests from person to person? what do you think?
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It may amuse you to know that God is not at all confused. Instead we human beings succeed in confuusing ourselves. It is his unknowing nature that makes him thrive better as God and confusion is far from him.
ReplyDeleteIn fact he listens and smiles at some of our requests because if they are not in line with his testament he cannot respond. But we are so often confused when we get positive responses to negative requests because there is another listening to our requests and he makes them possible for his own selfish ends.
So next time you make a request check in God's testament to see what his will is for that request. Above all note that should it be out of his testament, he did not respond to it but some other found it easy to make a mere fool of you in your hour of need. Confusing isn't it!