ptl@fluke.UUCP (Mike Andrews) (11/15/85)
Hi,
The question often asked is "Who is God to you?" Here's another way to
look at the question - "Who are you to God?" What does God think
of just you personally? How does He treat you? How does He care for
your personal and your family needs? How does He give you particularly
what you need spiritually as well as physically? How often do you go
to Him to ask Him to change your life, situations, etc.? It's humbling
to know there are things about us that need changing, and only God can
change them, if we let Him. He won't go against our free wills.
His Word says we are His children. So how do you treat your children,
or at least wish you would, or could? This comparison only goes so far,
though, because He is God to us, we are parents to our children. Yet
the comparison has a lot of value. If your child asked for help with
something that only you had the ability to help them with - wouldn't
you be right there? If you saw your child's life in danger, wouldn't
you risk losing your own to even attempt to save their's? Jesus did.
God's Word also tells us not to worry over the slightest things, because
He is caring for us in all ways. Remember the `birds of the air.'
He even says He cares enough for us to know just how many hairs, or
lack there of :-), we each have on our heads. Nothing is beyond His care
and concern for us. Nothing is beyond His ability to help us, if we let Him.
I choose to include in my Faith that God cares for every facet of
my life, nothing is excluded. Undoubtedly He has priorities, and some
things are more important to Him than others. He wants me to use the
many Gifts He's given me for the benefit of others. This isn't a
prideful boast, it's a statement we can all make. He also wants me
to realize my total need for Him and for His strength and Love and guidance.
There is nothing I can change in myself by myself - God either changes me,
or guides and strenthens me in the efforts I must make, or both. Regardless,
it is Him doing it all. I just make the choices. Humbling, huh.
This is where the God-parent comparison fades --- Divine dependence is not
human dependence. Not ... even ... close.
God Bless,
Mike Andrews
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God said He would never leave me nor forsake me, and that I am His temple.
A man is what he thinks.
A body led by the soul is only 2/3 of a person : the soul tries to get rid of
the spirit.
A body led by the spirit is a whole person : the spirit works to make the soul
help the body. And a spirit led by God the Holy Spirit is invincible.
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