Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Be A Good Boy, God

'God didn't become a man, be tempted in every way as you are, yet be without sin, go to the cross, die for your sin, rise from death, conquer Satan, sin and death so you could cuss people out and go to the strip club. That's not the point. You say, 'but I'm saved by grace'. Yeah, to good works.

Jesus didn't get out of the grave so that you could download pornography from the internet, so that you could gossip about your friends, so you could get drunk, so you could cuss people out, so you could worship yourself and get all angry and bitter at God, because He doesn't do what you tell Him to do.

Here's what we want. We want Jesus to forgive us, and be a good boy and do what He's told, and maintain our status as God. So we get angry when He doesn't do what we tell Him to do. And then there's a conflict between Gods. God, I'm disappointed in You, You're not very compliant. You're supposed to be a good boy and do what you're told.

this just isn't right. It's not that God belongs to you, it's that you belong to God. It's not that you exist so that God can glorify you, it's that you exist so that you can glorify God.'

2 comments:

soph said...

Thanks for the rebuke ben - I think we can all expect god to be our magic genie sometimes.

Ben McLaughlin said...

thanks soph.. yeah I do it all the time.