Who is this King of Glory, Son of God and Son of Man
Last night, i had a debate with my friends from VCF. It was about whether God can call you to do something that He knows will fail. That is despite obedience, it will fail.
Today, during my religion class, God spoke. Using a video showing Buddhism. The video was about a parrot who tried to do the right thing. The parrot was in a forest, and a fire broke out. Seeing his fellow friends in trouble, the parrot tried to fight the fire by diving into the nearby lake, flying over the fire and shaking off the excess water to quench the thrist of the fire.
Now that was a hopeless, useless task. There was no way the fire could be defeated by a mere sprinking of the water. However, the Gods (let me say that while i do not believe the story, i do believe it is trying to teach something.) came and mocked the bird. The bird rebvuke the Gods, the Gods, now abashed, cried in repentance and stopped the fire.
Now the issue is this: Sometimes, we see the objective as the achievement of our actions. God said no. He said, It is not what you do, but how I use what you do to achieve the goal. If you obey Me, I will use it to My good.
At the end of the day, i asked the question would God call you to failure. God turned the question around, and said achieving the objective is what He would do. But our actions may or may not achieve that goal.
Abraham was given the promise, the duty even, to have a child of Sarah and himself. He went to sleep with Hager, came up with Ishmael, you now have another race that fights the jewish people. Saul helped in the persecutions of the early church, God called him one day and he became a large contributor of the new testament. Jacob had 12 sons, one of whom became the governor of Egypt, yet not because Joseph ran for public office, (if anything, Joesph ran into Jail), but because he was faithful.
Many times, our actions may not achieve the goals we want, or even think they had a contributing factor to the goal. But God uses the actions. His ways are not our ways.
To give the jews back their homeland, genocide of the jews in WW2 happened. To bring israel out of egypt, all the first borns of Israel were killed; save for Moses who became the Pharoah's son. God's ways are not our ways. We merely obey.
Today, during my religion class, God spoke. Using a video showing Buddhism. The video was about a parrot who tried to do the right thing. The parrot was in a forest, and a fire broke out. Seeing his fellow friends in trouble, the parrot tried to fight the fire by diving into the nearby lake, flying over the fire and shaking off the excess water to quench the thrist of the fire.
Now that was a hopeless, useless task. There was no way the fire could be defeated by a mere sprinking of the water. However, the Gods (let me say that while i do not believe the story, i do believe it is trying to teach something.) came and mocked the bird. The bird rebvuke the Gods, the Gods, now abashed, cried in repentance and stopped the fire.
Now the issue is this: Sometimes, we see the objective as the achievement of our actions. God said no. He said, It is not what you do, but how I use what you do to achieve the goal. If you obey Me, I will use it to My good.
At the end of the day, i asked the question would God call you to failure. God turned the question around, and said achieving the objective is what He would do. But our actions may or may not achieve that goal.
Abraham was given the promise, the duty even, to have a child of Sarah and himself. He went to sleep with Hager, came up with Ishmael, you now have another race that fights the jewish people. Saul helped in the persecutions of the early church, God called him one day and he became a large contributor of the new testament. Jacob had 12 sons, one of whom became the governor of Egypt, yet not because Joseph ran for public office, (if anything, Joesph ran into Jail), but because he was faithful.
Many times, our actions may not achieve the goals we want, or even think they had a contributing factor to the goal. But God uses the actions. His ways are not our ways.
To give the jews back their homeland, genocide of the jews in WW2 happened. To bring israel out of egypt, all the first borns of Israel were killed; save for Moses who became the Pharoah's son. God's ways are not our ways. We merely obey.
posted by W | Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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