He is not a reflection of us, but we should be a reflection of Him, He is perfect, we are imperfect, He created us, and we are to praise Him for our very existence, lest that statement creep in to the rest of the text, ‘OUR VERY EXISTENCE’, what an awesome thought it is to know that we could not have even existed because of one entity. I do not mean that we, as in Dr. Randle, Mr. Howell, and the rest of the class could not have existed as a group, I mean that there would be no New York City, no Tokyo, no Italy, no Earth, we would not have won or fought the Civil War, there would have been no America, no one would have been around to save humanity from the flood, no flood would have occurred, no ‘us’ would have occurred, there would have been no Jesus, no need for Him, no King David, no Israel, no Moses, no Jacob, Isaac, or Abraham, etc… If God did not want us, all of the things we celebrate and hold dear, Jesus, the Bible, our history, church, family, friends, our things, would not have ever been. Without the fall of man, there would have been no Jesus, which is not to raise humanity’s view of itself because, in the same right, there would have been no reason for Him to die.
God has given us all of earth to subdue, tame, and use for His Glory. If we choose to use the earth for our glory, what glory will there be in the earth, since when do we even have any glory to use anything for. When is the last time any of us did anything righteous? Not just ‘right’, it may be right to fill up your car with gas before it is left on the side of the road empty, but when, unless your car is used for mobile evangelism, is that righteous? For that matter, what is Righteous? It has taken me a while to come up with an answer, but I think that this is what I will say for now, anything that is in the will of God, that we do, willingly, for His name’s sake. To just clear out all the cobwebs, what is righteous may not always be right, because the definitions of ‘right’, of which there are many, include: ‘accurate, or consistent with the facts or general belief’‘, ‘…consistent with generally held ideas of morality and proper conduct’, and ‘in the usual or expected state’. These all point at human opinion, which, let us be honest, is rarely Godly. Being righteous has to do with what God intends or wants, whereas being right involves popular opinion, Roe v. Wade being an excellent example.
If we are to be in the will of God, should we even think of ourselves? Of course we should, but not in the manner of how we are seen in other’s eyes. We should think of ourselves in the manner of how we are executing God’s will, how close we are to Him and His will. God is. That is one of the most bland statements you can make, at least as far as human opinion is concerned. With only two words, it makes the most powerful statement in mankind. “I think therefore I am.” Descartes said this, existentially, with all thought towards man. “God is”, the statement defines all that we believe in, and it also is a huge gamble. If God is not, then we have nothing to believe in, and we all have no purpose for living. Living without purpose is not impossible, people do it everyday, but purposeful living is incredible. Purposeful living is what we should do everyday, but living in God’s purpose, that is what we should strive for. I challenge us all to live in God’s purpose, and for that matter, to discover what his purpose is for our lives.
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