Thursday, November 03, 2005
"you better not mess with God!"?
How many times have you heard a person say “you better not mess with God”?
I have heard this many times from others and preachers and most likely I said it when I was too stupid to know better.
How can we “mess” with God? Is God so weak that He can be “messed” with? I hope not! If He is then we are in bad shape. To say that God can be “messed” with implies that we can upset set His sovereignty and cause Him to “slap His knee” or lose control of His emotions in frustration at us because we have caused something to happen to cause Him to lose control of something.
We should always reverently fear Him in the sense that we are the creatures and He is the Creator. We can do this by humbling ourselves to the fact that we are created by Him and have absolutely no control over our lives other than what He has granted us.
For someone to say “don’t mess with God” is very disrespectful to our sovereign Creator.
People say this thinking they are warning or scaring someone out of it, when in reality the person they are warning is trying to do something that is impossible to do, which is "mess with God".
You may be thinking you are “messing” with God, but you are only messing with yourself.
I have heard this many times from others and preachers and most likely I said it when I was too stupid to know better.
How can we “mess” with God? Is God so weak that He can be “messed” with? I hope not! If He is then we are in bad shape. To say that God can be “messed” with implies that we can upset set His sovereignty and cause Him to “slap His knee” or lose control of His emotions in frustration at us because we have caused something to happen to cause Him to lose control of something.
We should always reverently fear Him in the sense that we are the creatures and He is the Creator. We can do this by humbling ourselves to the fact that we are created by Him and have absolutely no control over our lives other than what He has granted us.
For someone to say “don’t mess with God” is very disrespectful to our sovereign Creator.
People say this thinking they are warning or scaring someone out of it, when in reality the person they are warning is trying to do something that is impossible to do, which is "mess with God".
You may be thinking you are “messing” with God, but you are only messing with yourself.
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I admit I don't give proper reverence many times. I know too often I bring Him down to my level in my own mind.
I think all of us do kc. I also "know too often I bring Him down to my level in my own mind".
Its so true His ways are not my ways, His ways are higher than my ways.......THANK GOD
Its so true His ways are not my ways, His ways are higher than my ways.......THANK GOD
Good point, good post! We often say things without consideration. A better statement would prolly be: Let God mess with you.
Hmm, let me consider that one:-)
God's Grace.
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Hmm, let me consider that one:-)
God's Grace.
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