If I were hungry I would not tell
you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your
vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver
you, and you will honor me.” (Psalm 50:12-15)
"Oh, don't leave me! I need you!
I can't live without you!" Some people long to hear those words. Some
people long to hear them from God. When someone dies, particularly a child,
some people tell the mourning family that "God needed another angel."
I understand that they're trying to comfort the family, but today's passage
reminds us that God doesn't need us, at all, for anything, ever. He wasn't
lonely before He created us. The Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit were a
sufficient community without us.
Let's face it, we cost God exponentially
more than we could ever give Him, just in our creation. He is responsible for
us, but not to us, while we are responsible to him but not for Him. That is the
reason why He doesn't have to explain why He does what He does. He does not owe
us existence, and within our existence, He doesn't owe us a breath of air, a
sip of water, a photon of light, or a morsel of bread. It is His nature to
provide us with good things even though we don't deserve them. This is what is
known as common grace. No matter how difficult your life may be, you owe Him
for all the good and for withholding worse than the bad that you experience.
It's not His job to make you happy. You aren't His employer, you're His
employee.
He blesses us with every breath we
breathe, every ounce we eat or drink, every sight we see, sound we hear, scent
we smell, flavor we taste, thought we think and feeling we feel. Beyond that,
when we rejected Him as God, He blessed us by taking our rejection seriously
(AKA treating us like the responsible beings we are) and then by paying the
price we owe Him for that rejection. He doesn't even demand that we accept the payment He
offers. We can chose the alternative of doing without His benefits. That is
what is known as Hell.
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In The Sky:
Full Moon (set 7:17 am 291degrees/rise 6:26 pm 70 degrees)
(note - due north is 0 degrees, east is 90 degrees, south is 180 degrees, west is 270 degrees.)
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