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Somehow this choice changed them. Now they were not like God/love but like sin/selfishness. The image of God, the love, disappeared and its place was taken by sin/selfishness. Now man become interested in himself and started to see the others as means which he can use to benefit himself; this choice led to so many crimes. This also led to unhappiness. And he thought that the reason for being unhappy was that he was not receiving enough so he tried to get more: more possessions, more attention, more respect, more everything. But the more he had the unhappier he became. Until, in his searching for happiness in selfishness, he became so degraded (which leads to unhappiness) that God was forced to put an end to his miserable life through flood.
Isn’t it the same today? Are we not trying to get as much as we can and give as little as we can imagining that by getting we will find happiness? Are we not thinking the same today that love is something that has to do with what other people do/give to us and not with what we do/give to them? Don’t we see love as something that has to do more with what we feel and less with how the others are feeling? We almost forgot that the more we try to become happy, the unhappier we will become. We almost forgot the fact that happiness comes when we try to make other people happy and not when we try to make ourselves happy. “For God so much loved the world that He gave…” all. Happiness is an effect of love which manifest itself through living for others!
This is what God is trying to tell us through nature, history, day by day events, and people around us. This is what He is trying to teach us through the Bible: it’s about giving, living for others. This is what the Bible is all about: LOVE. This is what Christianity is all about: LOVE.
I truly understand those people who don’t want to hear about Christianity. I would have exactly the same attitude if I look at the history of Christianity (in general), at Christianity today (in general) and at those who call themselves Christians (in general). If my choice of becoming Christian was dependent on these aspects, I would have never become a Christian. But I was privileged of being able to know about the real God, the God of the Bible and not the God of men’s desires. I chose to study for myself about God and not to allow others to interpret Him for me. And I can tell you, He is wonderful! Being a Christian is the best life that we can live! I am happy, so happy when I love, when I chose to be like God! I encourage you to do the same: stop looking at people and look at God.
Stop trying to be happy! Instead start trying to make others happy!
Friday, February 12, 2010
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I really like this post, Dorin! Thanks! (And it is SO true!)
ReplyDeleteThis does not seem "logical" from the world's perspective, because it is not. However, from God's perspective, it is totally logical, simply because it is the way He operates, and the way everything else in His great universe (except for us selfish humans) operates. As Ellen White so aptly put it in Desire of Ages (pages 20, 21):
"Now sin has marred God's perfect work, yet that handwriting remains. Even now all created things declare the glory of His excellence. There is nothing, save the selfish heart of man, that lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that moves upon the ground, but ministers to some other life. There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly blade of grass, but has its ministry. Every tree and shrub and leaf pours forth that element of life without which neither man nor animal could live; and man and animal, in turn, minister to the life of tree and shrub and leaf. The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold their beauty in blessing to the world. The sun sheds its light to gladden a thousand worlds. The ocean, itself the source of all our springs and fountains, receives the streams from every land, but takes to give. The mists ascending from its bosom fall in showers to water the earth, that it may bring forth and bud."