Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6: 9-10
As the daily reflections state, I often live my life for my name, my own kingdom, and my will, instead of God’s. I tend to think, it is not fair for me, if I’m living a hard life for God, and not having piece of the reward for myself. I’m not some kind of robot that is programmed to recognize who my master is and to do whatever He tells me to do. I have feelings too. But some of you might think that He is God and being a “robot” is a pretty fair deal for us.
So I began to think about how fair and loving God is, keeping in mind the concern we are supposed to have for giving full sincere glory to God. I guess one of my concerns is how is glorifying God going to benefit me. I know that some of you might think that I sound really self-centered, but I believe we are programmed like that (part of being born in sin).
Now what do I know about being fair, and love? I had to throw me a question that how much do I know about anything at all? And even if I know something about any thing at all, it’s probably based on my own limited imagination. So I come up with conclusion that things that I think benefit to me is only limited, and I’m only limiting what God can do for my benefit. I guess if my God is fair and loving, than I just trust that He will be fair and loving to my benefits. Just like trusting Jesus Christ as my savior from the eternal death, and that’s only a start.
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this blog reminds me of pinocchio for some reason...
Pinocchio was a puppet not a robot. Pinocchio, robot, that reminds me of one of my favorite movies-A.I. It's about a robot boy programmed to love as a child would love his mother. I think the whole movie is fascinating and moving in many levels. One of the things that struck me about the movie is how it portrayed the ability to love and dream as a profound and beautiful quality that is unique to a human being. The boy robot in the story displays this quality as he pursues his dream to have a loving relationship with his mother with all his ability and this pursuit lasts longer than the span of the whole human race. He does finally get to realize his dream but it could last him only one day. After that one day, he falls asleep and dreams eternally. I realize now the contrast this movie shows to our human pursuit of a loving relationship with our heavenly father. Our love for God is so distracted. It lacks the pure focus and determination-passion of this robot boy. But the amazing truth is that while our pursuit to love and serve God will-can- only last our lifetime. once it is perfectly realized, we will be able to enjoy it for an eternity. This ability to have a loving relationship with God is a gift only humans have -though not all. In many ways I wish I had the pure focus of that robot boy but only to pursue the will of God our heavenly father.
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