Why would God...

Krypton · June 30, 2012, 4:57am

Re: Why would God…

Sometimes we often see ourselves asking …

“If God was so independent and self-sufficient then He should not care whether we worship Him or not”

This views worship as a chore, a task a burden … But worship is really a gift, a blessing a way of balancing our minds, bodies and souls … An exercise seems to be hard work … But we exercise for our benefit, don’t we? Why is worship different to exercise?

Let’s consider the slave POV …

A slave will not ask the above question regarding his master …a true slave understands his relationship with his owner. Rather a good slave will say to himself …

“It does not matter whether my master rewards me or not, he owns me, tells me to do something and I obey”

Consider a king … His subject goes to him and asks for justice on a matter … The King looks at the situation and makes a decision which is not entirely what the subject had in mind … If the subject walked away complaining the people would say he disrespected the king …Rather whatever the verdict the king gives the subject walks away …content .. Saying thank you for considering my plea.

Our requests are often seemingly in our interest but in fact they are not sometimes in our favour. A mother is looked down upon if she gives her children sweets all the time … They say her children are spoilt.

Consider a drug addict …she goes to a cocaine dealer and he feels sorry for her and gives her a bit of extra coke for free … She likes him a lot … Then she goes to her friend who has lots of money but he does not give her any money and definitely not any cocaine … Who loves her more? The one who listens to her or the one who doesn’t?

We should not be quick to judge the motives of God … More often than not we are viewing things with a selfish pair of spectacles.

it is these same “spectacles” we judge his goodness, mercy, greatness from. : )