It's a Good Thing I'm Not God

It’s a Good Thing I’m Not God

I’m not God.  I can’t paint very well, I get some colors mixed up from time to time – like brown and green, purple and blue.  If I had created this universe, WoW!  You would really be amazed at the color scheme.

And If I were God, there are more than a few politicians with whom I’d deal a severe infliction of some type yet unknown.

No.  I’m not God. 

I’m not as loving as God.

I’m not as full of grace as I talk about how God is full of grace.

I don’t love all mankind equally, as God loves all mankind.

I don’t have the patience to be God.

I don’t have the wisdom to be God.

And I have too good a memory to be God.  I learned a long time ago that God removes our sins from us as far as the East is from the West, and He never remembers them against us again.  I can’t do that.  Once, in eighth grade, there was this kid – Larry.  And he …

Well, never mind. 

No, I’m not God. 

However, I’m glad God is not napping.

I’m glad He is not on vacation.

I’m glad He doesn’t show favoritism.

And I’m especially glad for His love and forgiveness for my own frailties. 

And you, too, benefit from that love and forgiveness.

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P Michael Biggs

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Another View of Trust

Another View of Trust

This picture speaks to me on so many levels.  How about you?

We can become attached to so many ‘things’ and ideas and people and ways of living. 

And yet God is standing before us and continually says, “TRUST ME.”

That girl I nearly married … God said “not her.  Trust me.”  And He sent Carolyn.

That job I thought would be the end of all jobs … God said “no. Not that one.  I have something better for you.”  And He sent job after job, in time, on time, every time.

We (and I’m including myself in that) think we need so much stuff, or whatever the next new gadget or relationship or job is that comes along.  I think, in part, that we have been taught to be discontent, to always reach for more. 

Where is happiness?  Where is ‘content with what we have’?

Carolyn is in Zambia right now visiting an organization called ACE (Alliance for Children Everywhere).  We contribute to their ministry and CB does an occasional free-lance project for them.  On our conversation yesterday, she was in tears as she was telling me what she has been seeing. 

We get upset if our internet connection is disrupted for ten seconds.  She saw home after home with no electricity.  She saw home after home with no running water.  She saw ladies with maybe two dresses to their name, most were barefooted. 

They weren’t complaining.  They were laughing, smiling.  They had joy.

At one point on her journey, she was deep into a poverty-stricken area and she saw a gathering of twenty or so ladies.  They were laughing and singing, clapping their hands and having a ‘Happy’ in the middle of their mess.  They didn’t know what you and I know.  They couldn’t relate to the abundance most of us enjoy here in America and other parts of this world. 

They were simply infested with the ‘happies’. 

I think they continually discover these wise words:

CB attended a Zambian church service this morning.  I anxiously await her report on that. 

This I know, God can be trusted, regardless of any situation in which we find ourselves.

Perhaps … perhaps we need less ‘stuff’ and more trust in the God who supplies all our needs.

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P Michael Biggs

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We Just Need to Bloom

We Just Need to Bloom

I hate smug Christianity.  You know … “my God’s better than your God, and I’m a better stripe of Christian than you are.” 

Ouch!

And I wonder what God thinks of that kind of attitude? 

I’m not the brightest bulb in the socket.  I’m flying through

life with gusts up to 80 mph, and I sometimes make a misstep, even a mistake. 

And God loves me anyway. 

I’m not out to impress anyone these days.  I’m not out to be a show-off of my spirituality or do a one-up on anybody. 

My job is to be ME.  I just want to bloom where I’m planted, and allow you all the room you need to bloom as well.

I don’t have a monopoly on God or how God works or in whom God works.  I just want to do my part in this big ole’ world.

I think God has given me a mission to spread hope and encouragement through writing and speaking.  So that is what I do. 

What is your place in this world?

There’s room for both of us.

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