As people, we often believe God owes us something. We go to church, do a couple of good deeds, and then expect God to return the favor.
In high school, I had a friend who was convinced he won poker because he “went to church.” Another friend of mine once explained that because of his faithfulness to God and purity, he would land a really awesome wife. Every time I am running late to something spiritual (like a discipleship group I’m leading) and a catch a red light, I get annoyed with God. “Come on! I’m trying to be spiritual here. Throw me some help.”
I recently read a parable (Luke 17:7-10 if you’re interested) that discussed how we think God owes us something for our “service” to Him. Essentially, Jesus calls it foolish when we think God is indebted to us. And there are good reasons for this.
Why it is foolish:
1) It becomes a business relationship: We treat God more like He is the godfather. I do God a favor, and He’ll make someone an offer they can’t refuse. God calls us to more than a business relationship, He calls us to intimacy.
2) We ignore our own sin: Great job, you gave some poor people some food! Never mind the countless sins you’ve committed this week, God should give you a nice blessing for helping someone. The truth is, if we actually got what God owed us, it would be death. Not pleasant, but true.
3) We fail to recognize how much He has given us: I often take this for granted, but the very reason I have breath is a gift from God. The beauty of Creation, the love people have for each other, good food, and everything else we cherish comes from the Father. But even more importantly, He already gave EVERYTHING when He sent His son to die so that we might have abundant and eternal life.
Don’t Miss Out:
If you think God owes you for your good works, you’re only going to be disappointed. Instead of focusing on what He hasn’t given you, focus on the absurd amount of blessing you have already received.
Because in the end, the true prize is not a new iPad, catching green lights, or even an amazing spouse. The true prize is greater still, it is God Himself. He doesn’t owe you anything, but He still chose to give you the greatest prize anyway.
I hope you revel in that this week.
#LiveFully.
Amazing! And I agree. We must love and serve the Lord because of what He is, not because what we think He might give us.
Thanks! The great part is, He will always be better than what He might give us.
Romans 1:25 “worshipping creation rather than the creator” were not the main character in this story, its funny that God gave us everything but we keep asking for more.
Absolutely! We are not the main characters in this story, great point Aaron
The universe is like a shaken bottle of water. The water represents timespace, energy the Father, “the substance of things hoped for”- Heb11:1. The air represents probability, energy the Holy Spirit, “the evidence of things not seen”- Heb11:1.The bottle itself represents the limitation of impossibilities. The shaking is the one substance exerting its oneness in one direction stirring closed circuitry, represented by the bubbles, that there be something to move out of the way and fill in behind, that all circulating the same way repel, by the basis of Planck’s volume, “the stone which the builders rejected” – Mat21:42, energy the Son, administering orthogonality that not only pushes for confluence for undifferentiation but temporarily blocks the processes of undifferentiation. But, by the second law of thermodynamics undifferentiation is naturally inevitable, centripetal undifferentiating greater than centrifugal orthogonal blocking. Each bubble eventually ceases to exist having its original eternal nonexistence restored. What is it that God took away from us that He didn’t give us, therefore that He owes us back? NONEXISTENCE!
It was recently discovered that our consciousness is maintained by substance P neurons (pain nerves). Notice that we are always doing something to feel better, for now, or for the “hereafter”. Our personal being is a magnetic flux, a closed circuit of the one substance in the one substance, in the arising reticular formation of the medulla oblongata in our brains.
It is obvious that everything in the universe is running down or being built up by that which is running down. When our circuit runs down, by more undifferentiation, there is pleasure. Extrapolating upon these findings, undifferentiation back into nonexistence is the satisfaction of all desires that has been called “nirvana”.
There is a veil in the brain that hides the tremendous pleasure and satisfaction there is in deep sleep and other types of unconsciousness, by erasing the memory of this paradise.
But, there is a sound, the cylindrical sound, that differentiates circuits that undifferentiate, almost completely, our circuit by confluency, thereby bypassing that veil, thereby revealing the tremendous pleasure and satisfaction of actual unconsciousness. Those who didn’t have this veil didn’t live long enough to pass on their genes.
This sound’s power is decipherable in Hebrew where the onomatopoeic (word sounding like the thing named) word for a well, which is a hollow cylinder, spelt aleph yod nun, and pronounced “eyennn” like the German word for one, “ein”, will give moments of “nirvana”. This word, translated “ain”, also means nothingness (that figures), an eye, and a ring.
If you think of this sound, “eyennn”, repeatedly, with your eyes closed, you will eventually see a black disk in the middle surrounded by concentric rings of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red, on a field of brown. This explains the other meanings, eye and ring.
You will feel that this meditation gives you moments of supreme enjoyment as moments of near nonexistence. You will understand that nonexistence is “where it’s at”.
There is nothing wrong with this, for, there are two things in the universe, energy; and, information, which is the conformation of energy. Information is basically differentiated in closed circuits, that there be something to move out of the way and fill in behind in the one substance, energy. “In Him (God) we live and move and have our being”.
Yes, energy is God. In 1John1:5 it says, “God is light”. Energy transfers are found to be composed of photons, quanta of light. God perpetually creates worlds by His theophysiology: The infinitesimal point nothingness, . , called “Ain” (pronounced “eyennn” like the German “ein”), is rastered by time into timespace, U , called Ain Suph, which being one exerts its oneness in one direction, / , which stirs closed circuitry, O , that all going the same way, vO^XvOX , repel, X , a Big Bang, called Ain Suph Aur, which forces closed circuits to go into confluency, = , so that they are eventually undifferentiated back into nothingness, nonexistence.
You can see that this is energy’s, God’s, will. But mankind cried for immortality, to have some moments of pleasure, near moments of nonexistence, eventually, so, God incarnated as Jesus Christ to provide instructions on how to become immortal. Christ will provide immortality, if you follow His directions; but, He (God) has no bad feelings against anyone wanting and pursuing nonexistence.
But, in order for circuits to undifferentiate completely they have to match right down to the Planck’s distances, so, just ordinary death is no guarantee of immediate nonexistence. But, if there were no complete polarity cancellations, undifferentiations back into nonexistence (0=-1+1.’.-1+1=0), there would be no light, therefore no visible light, that we see. Counterclockwise and clockwise are the basic polarities.
If there were no Planck’s volumes, but only infinitesimality , there would be no friction to enable building, by orthogonality, the world we are familiar with. Remember, the infinitesimal point nothingness is nothingness, nonexistence.
Matter and antimatter (the exact opposite polarity) cancel out into photons, quanta of energy, thus, total undifferentiation is the complete return to God.