One thing I love about God
I woke up this morning thinking how nice it is that God doesn't give us a regime to follow. He gives us Heavenletters™.
He gives us a realm to live in, and He is the Kindly King of the Realm Who Doesn't Sit Around Giving Orders. He's not the general, and we're not in the army.
He doesn't tell us what time we have to get up. Certainly, it is built-in that we wake up, yet God doesn't stand over us and blow a whistle when.
He doesn't give us a regimen. He doesn't give us a list of exercises we must perform. He doesn't give us pages of techniques to follow and in a certain order. He doesn't tell us what we must eat and must not eat and when. He doesn't impose on us. He sets no limits.
We have an easy-going sort of God.
He gave us the Garden of Eden to roam in freely. He trusts us to find our way around in it.
If He gives us a path to follow, it is the path of love. And if we fall off the path, He doesn't discipline us.
He doesn't believe in discipline -- discipline as a reaction to an infringement, discipline as punishment or penalty the way it mostly is in schools and prisons, discipline as rebuttal, discipline as restriction. He gives us love instead. He shows us how to love.
He gave us free will. He didn't give us free will in order to take it away.
He gave us everything and said, "Here."
This is what I was thinking when I woke up this morning.
Comments
What a blessing your words are, Señora. Nothing "deep", nothing complicated, nothing grim, nothing demanding – no need to qualify for anything by being a good girl/boy, no need to think big important thoughts or feel deep and precious feelings gleaming with chrome. God said (quoting from memory): "If you were to speak for Me, what would you have Me say through you?" This entry, I feel, comes close to that. Why not enumerate all the happy ways in which God is all for us; in which, in fact, God is exactly what we want Him to be?
What do I really want Him to be? Santa Claus? No, that's only the epitome of disempowerment. A true, loving friend? Oh yes.
Let me tell you one thing I would have Him say through me: "Your deepest, boldest and most impossible dreams are true, they are reality. Your realism is not. Your realism, although potent in making you miserable, is about the only unreal thing there is."
"If He gives us a path to follow, it is the path of love. And if we fall off the path, He doesn’t discipline us."
WOW!
I kinda like what you said on the August 8th, "One Thing I Love about God" blog:
"He doesn’t impose on us. He sets no limits.
We have an easy-going sort of God."
Ah...h...h, to be like God!!