The reasons that God wants us to listen are not that complex. We get mixed up with those who tell us what we should think, preach what we should believe and push their own mandate. Not God’s. Sometimes they actually and really and wantonly LIE. It is far easier to blame someone or something else than it is for us to admit our own hate or other shortcomings.
Today though, I actually heard such a lie as it fell on my own ears. I know it is a lie because I know law and also when I heard it the small still voice inside me could not contain itself and laughed out loud. Saying quite literally - “Now there is a lie.”
A fellow – Gary Cass – looked right at the camera and told everyone that in Canada it is illegal to read the Bible. Come on. How can such a statement pass a reality check. I immediately quizzed some of my Canadian friends. Reports seem to indicate that such a law does not exist. Still many comments later after the post there was a surprising number of people seem to have bought it. Like there were armed men going to storm in and arrest anyone reading a Bible. Soon we will not be able to read a Bible in the USA. Yeah right.
God knows that for us to know all that we should and can will take time. Some of us are not ready to know everything right now. It is not so much how much we know and understand but how we handle the discovery and revelation. Not as simple as it sounds for if it were we would be doing it more and better.
What is the reflection of God that is seen by those around you. When you speak what part of God do people hear. Do you ramble off quotes, when asked do you say you read it or the preacher said or do you say that you know it is true.
A slippery slope. The abortion doctor murderer says God wants him to kill the doctor. One is wise to learn well what it is that God really says. Once learned the mystery is solved.
Some of the signs can be:
- Renewed faith. You feel close to God and you find that you want to know more and more.
- Less judging. God is the sole gatekeeper to heaven. That key his held by no man. No matter what list they read, no words they write nor sermon they preach will condemn any person or group to hell.
- More Love. Feeling loved and knowing love makes it easier to share the love also. For what God wants you to know is that your life is here to enjoy but also to learn how to love as God love’s you.
- Knowing that there is nothing in this world that God created that he does not like. The list of things made my man is endless. There is nothing man can know, learn, do or attain that God had not allowed for. The test is do we do it in a way that brings glory to God and ourselves or do we do it in a way means we should bow our heads in shame.
All this can and is done inside whatever religious frame work you chose to live and work in. Just beware that what label you give your self you wear. Good or bad. You will find that people judge you from that label rather than from deeds. On the outside the label: Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, agnostic, atheist can seem okay – until you meet the zealots who will form how your choice is perceived.
Perhaps that frame work is just to live within the framework that God intends. To learn the true relationship that God wants with us and go from there.
When asked: “What is Hell?” What do you answer. Mine later. More about categories too.
