You know something? We are truly very negative as humans, aren't we? Have you ever just sat there stumped when asked to list your blessings? Ever felt yourself bursting with responses just dripping off your tongue when asked what's wrong? We salivate over negative expression! Why?? The answer is simple: because our heart's hopes have died the moment we have forgotten the goodness of God and the life He brings through suffering…! The inevitable result?? Negativity..No Hope, No positive energy!! Then we use our energy to give up!! To hades with God we say…this life hurts!! To hades with His plan..This plan causes pain!! Don't believe me??? If we find God good..then why is our language so bad..so negative?? So many prefixes in our language give us away! Disconnect, Disarm, Depreciate, Disillusionment, Deactivate, Despair, Depress, Demotivate, Disengage…Holy Guacamole!! I'm getting Depressed just saying all of them!! We love to describe all that is going wrong, all that we Distrust about this Dying world…Oh why don't we just say it…Along with Nietzsche every one, "God is dead"!
The idea is stated in "The Madman" as follows:
Wow..Are we really sure that we want to mess with God's plan?? Are we sure we want to decide that God is not good enough for us to follow?? Here was Jonah, mad as a cow that he was asked to go save murderers and yet…he was the murderer of God the moment he exchanged the truth of Him for the lie that his plan was better than God's plan.
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh…the plan wasn't fair, how could the request have been a right request, even a reasonable request?? Oopse, Satan got us again didn't he? We are not the author of God's story..He is! Jonah, Jonah, Jonah…Faith is trusting only in the Savior's way before you even know what that way is going to be!! Dear Friends…We walk by faith that the way is good, not by sight that sees what the way will be at every turn!! Yes, God is good…and He's alive!! God is good even though it's His version of good, not ours!! Stop killing Him! Stop putting Him back up on that cross because it's you that wants to be God! Stop it and face your own block of wood…In the end…it's beautiful!! Ask yourself the last time you really looked at the way the most heinous of all deaths, the crucifixion! When you start focusing on the fact that the crucifixion became the resurrection then you will stop getting in God's way! When we don't like the Pain..our faith begins to wain!! When you're in pain, remember what you have to gain..!!
God is Faithful!!
The idea is stated in "The Madman" as follows:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?—Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann
Wow..Are we really sure that we want to mess with God's plan?? Are we sure we want to decide that God is not good enough for us to follow?? Here was Jonah, mad as a cow that he was asked to go save murderers and yet…he was the murderer of God the moment he exchanged the truth of Him for the lie that his plan was better than God's plan.
Romans 1:25
New International Version (NIV)
Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh…the plan wasn't fair, how could the request have been a right request, even a reasonable request?? Oopse, Satan got us again didn't he? We are not the author of God's story..He is! Jonah, Jonah, Jonah…Faith is trusting only in the Savior's way before you even know what that way is going to be!! Dear Friends…We walk by faith that the way is good, not by sight that sees what the way will be at every turn!! Yes, God is good…and He's alive!! God is good even though it's His version of good, not ours!! Stop killing Him! Stop putting Him back up on that cross because it's you that wants to be God! Stop it and face your own block of wood…In the end…it's beautiful!! Ask yourself the last time you really looked at the way the most heinous of all deaths, the crucifixion! When you start focusing on the fact that the crucifixion became the resurrection then you will stop getting in God's way! When we don't like the Pain..our faith begins to wain!! When you're in pain, remember what you have to gain..!!
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