What do you think if you read this?

booksale

Me: God, can I ask You a question?

God: Sure

Me: Promise You won't get mad
... ... ... ... ...
God: I promise

Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?

God: What do u mean?

Me: Well, I woke up late

God: Yes

Me: My car took forever to start

God: Okay

Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait

God: Huummm

Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call

God: All right

Me: And on top of it all off, when I got home ~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it wouldn't work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?

God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that

Me (humbled): OH

GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.

Me: (ashamed)

God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work.

Me (embarrassed):Okay

God: Your phone went dead bcuz the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call, I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered.

Me (softly): I see God

God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in the dark.

Me: I'm Sorry God

God: Don't be sorry, just learn to Trust Me.... in All things , the Good & the bad.

Me: I will trust You.

God: And don't doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.

Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for Everything today.

God: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I Love looking after My Children...

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I am a Christian, but when I read articles like this, I can't agree.

(Sometimes I would wonder that it's because I am no longer a good Christian.)

Benny_Cake

To be honest that sounds less like God and more like a personal assistant. Maybe some Christians believe that God micromanages every aspect of day-to-day life, but most wouldn't I'd imagine. Why would you think that makes you a bad Christian?

PDN

I think it was probably written by a 10-year old.

Doc Farrell

You are both right, it's narcissistic nonsense. An american kid who worked with me started crying because he was arrested for crashing his girlfriends car while off the road for no insurance and having been arrested for drugs previously, asking me why God hated him. I explained that it was time for him to grow up and stop blaming God.
A good book on the subject as to why God is not Zeus is called 'where the hell is God' by Richard Leonard Sj.

booksale

I have the same thought that God does not intervene my life like that. God takes care of me but I live my life and God does not intervene most of the time. That I need to take care of my self and bear the responsibility of my choice and also accept that life is full of ups and downs and all that.

I also thought that it must be a 10 year old kid who wrote this.

But then, on the other hand, I am thinking a child with simple mind is blessed.

And my thought of 'God does not intervene' sometimes make me ask myself what's the point to pray to God. Is it just to talk to God? Do I still believe that prayers can change things and miracles still do exit?

Sorry, I know there are big jumps from here to there (I mean my thoughts, from the articles to prayers to miracles ... ) and it might not make sense.

dvae

its funny, i goggled the first line and found quite a bit of positive feedback on the above.
personally, i too think it was written by a child.

Doc Farrell

Having such a sentimental and shallow understanding on the nature of God is not just childish but actually dangerous. As soon as cancer hits, or deep grief then someone who believes that God intervenes like a caffeined up guardian angel in all the minor details of their life is going to suffer extremely and unnecessarily.
For an adult, in order to have any real depth of faith, one really should look to Auschwitz, to all famines, to a parent who has lost her only child. One must look directly at death and ask where is God now?
If death is truely the end then life is no longer a quest but simply a remorseless trip to the worms.
On page 52 of The Wow Factor by William J O'Malley he writes:
'Without conscious effort and a resolute decision, we forget as we grow older that life isn't a state we struggle to survive in, but a Quest.'
I often wonder how many professed atheists have looked at reality truely stripped of the supernatural, as one of my favourite writers, Albert Camus, could. To continue breathing without despair is difficult. Although I have been, until recently, an agnostic for 20 years I can't remember being an atheist for more than a few seconds. I simply cannot experience that level of awful nothingness.
That is why I have investigated the supernatural and death these last few years, not because I enjoy it but because the alternative, to live without a sense of the mystery of immortality, is too painful.
Camus' sentimentality free vision, so filled with compassion for humans and rage against their greed and hypocrisies (including religious) is the finest atheist writing.

gimmebroadband

The way of the cross will always be a part of life, Jesus did ask us to take up our cross daily and follow Him! (Lk 9:23)

irishh_bob

booksale wrote: »

I have the same thought that God does not intervene my life like that. God takes care of me but I live my life and God does not intervene most of the time. That I need to take care of my self and bear the responsibility of my choice and also accept that life is full of ups and downs and all that.

I also thought that it must be a 10 year old kid who wrote this.

But then, on the other hand, I am thinking a child with simple mind is blessed.

And my thought of 'God does not intervene' sometimes make me ask myself what's the point to pray to God. Is it just to talk to God? Do I still believe that prayers can change things and miracles still do exit?

Sorry, I know there are big jumps from here to there (I mean my thoughts, from the articles to prayers to miracles ... ) and it might not make sense.

when i was three , my mother cared for me but she intervened all the time , if god doesnt intervene , how can he take care of you ?

as for why people pray to god , they pray to god in the same way north koreans cry at kim jong ills funeral , do it or else

Manach

For some reason in response to this I'm reminded of the Johnny Cash song, "God's gonna cut you down".

Benny_Cake

irishh_bob wrote: »

as for why people pray to god , they pray to god in the same way north koreans cry at kim jong ills funeral , do it or else

Really? If you know of a church where people pray in the style of a North Korean state funeral I'd be interested to know where it is! It may happen at the very far end of the charismatic movement, but aside from that...

booksale

irishh_bob wrote: »

when i was three , my mother cared for me but she intervened all the time , if god doesnt intervene , how can he take care of you ?

Comfort me, listen to me, change the environment if He thinks it's good for me, change me if He thinks that's better??

eyescreamcone

Ah lads
It's hard to give a god credit for the sunshine without blaming him for the tsunami.
S**t happens
Sometimes we have control sometimes we don't

But there is no proof of anybody driving the bus and micro managing our lives.

Take responsibility for your own life and actions.
Be your own god!!!

Irishchick

If god doesn't intervene in anyone's life what is the point of praying for them? Or praying for anything?

Doc Farrell

I'm fairly sure that no Christian here has said that God does not 'intervene' or act on the world.
As for being ones own God, one can do that in ones twenties if fit and fancy free but, at least in my case, that kind of raging narcissism can only stretch so far.
Many kings and politicians became Gods to their people, it rarely ended well, at least for the poor!

santing

I agree that the story could have been written by a 10 year old, and yet I think it is beautiful. It is severely flawed by the idea that there is a battle raging with me in the centre, and God coming to my aid all the time. But there is a (spiritual) battle raging, and God is actively in control, and we should let Him have control over our life.

But we are not the centre of the battle, and our personal well-being is not the object of the battle. We read from Eccl 3 this morning in Church, the famous "there is a time for ... " And after all the "positive" and "negative" times we need to learn to say "He has made everything beautiful in its time" After all we are but "under the sun," our understanding is limited.