The whole thing seems to stem around why we're here on this earth. I've wondered that myself quite a few times. I've heard a lot of people from different religions and ones that say they have no religion at all ask why are we here. Maybe, I thought, it's a learning thing. It certainly can't be a proving ground, I see people who seem to have a silver spoon in their mouth and those who have had their share of misfortunes. Each religion has their share of those who say their God is after the ones who have strife. Each will have a share that says God is pleased with the ones who've had an easy life. Then there are those of us who have no opinion if God is punishing or rewarding certain ones. So it can't be a proving ground.
So maybe... just maybe, it's about growing. We're raised in nothing but a competition world. We grade to see who is the best in school and suck up or bust butt at work to see who's favored. I can only see though as a mortal parent would though, so I cannot see as a God. My three kids all done well in school, yet their grades differed. They all head differ ways with interest, one a teacher and one a nurse, the other is still figuring it out, lol. They are all very different people and have grown in different ways, but I love them all the same. No matter what they do, what they say, or what may come... I'll still love them. So it can't be a competition.
So maybe, just maybe...it's about learning. I think as babies we instinctively love and trust and accept. WE don't really have a choice in the matter. Maybe it's about learning to love from choice. To forgive from choice. To give mercy from choice and grace from choice. Maybe it's about learning to make lemons sweet and seeing the lightest part of a dark cloud. To see the beauty of the forest without getting fixated on a tree. Maybe it is to serve someone who is under that cloud or lost in the forest. Maybe it's learning not to judge another from a distant. To respect your neighbor and yourself. What if we are given the chance to grow?
In the Bible it says we can be like God, not God, but like Him. For some that says power and vengeance, but that is wrong. We can be like God, not Him in that respect, parents always are the top. But maybe like Him means to grow in love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, mercy, grace, truth, grateful, patience, and forgiveness. We are given hundreds of scenarios each day, some with people and some with animals, and some with things. TV don't work, car mess up, rude drivers, rude people... and the list goes on. Now it's funny but as one grows older one mellows out. Life gives us these chances to exercise Free Will as to what we will do with them.
Just maybe this life is to prepare one for the next world, a world with peace, love, forgiveness, acceptance, kindness... we will call it Heaven. What if it ain't a competition against anybody and the only person you need beat is the you from yesterday. Maybe it's to judge yourself yesterday, not as a grade but as a marker on what you need improve on today. Maybe there is no pressure, no grading, no measurement that we can yet see, but the desire builds to be more like God. That may include hard knocks from time to time, but one can do it. And with all the trails and tribulations, no matter how you do, you are loved. You are loved and acknowledged for you. There are no favorites, we're each His favorite.
So maybe, just maybe... when we get close enough to God, He takes us home. Allowing us to improve and heal with His Grace as a human being. Allowing us to become like Jesus. Like Him or not he took more than any man would, and was graceful and merciful, loving when He wasn't loved, helping whom he could. Like Jesus the man and the risen Savior displayed while He was here. We're not expected to be like Him but try to be, and God will grant the rest we lack through Grace. So maybe when we're the closest and our work is done, He calls us home.
So maybe... just maybe, it's about growing. We're raised in nothing but a competition world. We grade to see who is the best in school and suck up or bust butt at work to see who's favored. I can only see though as a mortal parent would though, so I cannot see as a God. My three kids all done well in school, yet their grades differed. They all head differ ways with interest, one a teacher and one a nurse, the other is still figuring it out, lol. They are all very different people and have grown in different ways, but I love them all the same. No matter what they do, what they say, or what may come... I'll still love them. So it can't be a competition.
So maybe, just maybe...it's about learning. I think as babies we instinctively love and trust and accept. WE don't really have a choice in the matter. Maybe it's about learning to love from choice. To forgive from choice. To give mercy from choice and grace from choice. Maybe it's about learning to make lemons sweet and seeing the lightest part of a dark cloud. To see the beauty of the forest without getting fixated on a tree. Maybe it is to serve someone who is under that cloud or lost in the forest. Maybe it's learning not to judge another from a distant. To respect your neighbor and yourself. What if we are given the chance to grow?
In the Bible it says we can be like God, not God, but like Him. For some that says power and vengeance, but that is wrong. We can be like God, not Him in that respect, parents always are the top. But maybe like Him means to grow in love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, mercy, grace, truth, grateful, patience, and forgiveness. We are given hundreds of scenarios each day, some with people and some with animals, and some with things. TV don't work, car mess up, rude drivers, rude people... and the list goes on. Now it's funny but as one grows older one mellows out. Life gives us these chances to exercise Free Will as to what we will do with them.
Just maybe this life is to prepare one for the next world, a world with peace, love, forgiveness, acceptance, kindness... we will call it Heaven. What if it ain't a competition against anybody and the only person you need beat is the you from yesterday. Maybe it's to judge yourself yesterday, not as a grade but as a marker on what you need improve on today. Maybe there is no pressure, no grading, no measurement that we can yet see, but the desire builds to be more like God. That may include hard knocks from time to time, but one can do it. And with all the trails and tribulations, no matter how you do, you are loved. You are loved and acknowledged for you. There are no favorites, we're each His favorite.
So maybe, just maybe... when we get close enough to God, He takes us home. Allowing us to improve and heal with His Grace as a human being. Allowing us to become like Jesus. Like Him or not he took more than any man would, and was graceful and merciful, loving when He wasn't loved, helping whom he could. Like Jesus the man and the risen Savior displayed while He was here. We're not expected to be like Him but try to be, and God will grant the rest we lack through Grace. So maybe when we're the closest and our work is done, He calls us home.
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