We attach human traits to everything as that’s all we know. We humanize animals. We humanize plants. We even wrongly humanize God. I guess it helps us cope with aspects of each with which we can’t identify. Today I witnessed a blatant mass murder on my back porch. There is a bird’s nest that a finch pair have occupied this spring and I could only assume were raising chicks. I watched a mass fluttering of 3 birds, coming and going, fighting, then finally I saw a sparrow perch on the side of the nest and – one by one – pick up and fling out 1st a hatchling, 2nd an egg with a partially formed chick, 3rd another mostly formed chick still in an egg, and 4th a newly laid egg. Now all 4 dead. Mom and dad finch tried to fight off the sparrow, but couldn’t. This wasn’t an accident. It was intentional. The sparrow did this willfully. And this isn’t the first time I’ve seen a sparrow raid a nest. The first time a sparrow killed bluebird chicks. I was furious this time just as I was the first time. And then I am painfully reminded, “Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.” (Matthew 10:29)
Mr. Shalom Auslander, New York Times op-ed author, said we should “rid ourselves of God” because he’s just too hateful and starts war. The sparrow did what it did – that’s nature, and God knows. Yet Mr. Auslander, a Jewish man, blames God for all the hatred and ill that man commits while his own people – thr Jews – time and time, generation after generation blasphemed God, turned their backs on Him, and yet God continued to love them. Yes, He did punish them for their disobedience – as any GOOD FATHER does to correct bad behavior – but He never turned His back on them.
If God were like Mr. Auslander and the “woke” people today He wouldn’t just punish the disobedient He would erase them out of oblivion. If God was like Mr. Auslander He would kill ALL the sparrows for the action of the one. If God were like you and me the whole world would become a deviant, murderous place that would die out in about 1 week.
I am beyond thankful God ISN’T like us! I’m grateful He IS the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. That His promises ARE yea and amen. That He NEVER slumbers of sleeps. I’m grateful God abhors “haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.” I’m thankful He DOES expect more from me as His child. I’m eternally grateful He gave us His Son, Jesus, as a tangible example of how to live and love, and The Holy Spirit to live IN us and give us every support to live the example Jesus left us.
Knowing this about my God is a huge comfort. He IS a just and loving God. I am sorry Mr. Auslander doesn’t know my God but will pray one day he will come to know Him as I do.
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