Comments on: Bad Economy-Awesome Grace http://yahwehssong.com/2009/01/21/bad-economy-awesome-grace/ fulfilling empty ramblings Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Saph http://yahwehssong.com/2009/01/21/bad-economy-awesome-grace/#comment-170 Saph Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:25:45 +0000 http://yahwehssong.com/?p=155#comment-170 I don't have a lot of time for typing but now, so here's a short response for once. I believe that for you to really worship God, really be Christian, you have to first tell yourself there is no heaven. Not "there is no hell", it's easy to think that God is all rainbows and butterflies and wouldn't create a hell. If there was no heaven, would you still worship God? The test of life isn't the "Don't break the cosmic laws and you get into the club". But would you be good, if like Job or Jesus, you got nothing back? Did Jesus get something in return? He went back to what he was, so really he didn't gain anything. Job got more children, but does that bring the others back? When you truly believe there is no heaven, in concept, for I am sure there is. When you think that you will never be good enough to "Earn" or "deserve" heaven. Would you still follow justice, goodness and the light? I found my answer to be yes. I want to be good just because it feels good to be good. I want to because it fills me up with light and hope. Then God is no longer a bouncer you're trying to get to let you in the club. God is the only partner you can trust to feel the same. God, or what I worship, despite having the choices, power and authority to do whatever he wants, _wants_ to be good. He gets no reward, no material gain, no prize. He wants to be good because he wants to be good. God is not only your pastor, but your shadow, and your cane. The light which shines so bright from him shows the shadow of what he and you could be. The strength from knowing that even He wants to be good supports you as you walk. When you realize that for you there is no heaven, you will never earn it. And accept that you will not enter it from whatever you do, or whatever you believe, you feel a lightness within you, that you want to be God's warrior despite the outcome. People say, "We don't deserve heaven" only to follow it with "but", then saying that Jesus can let you in, or some other thing. They think that by saying they don't deserve it it means they're humble and God will let them in... but then they are saying they _will_ go in because they deserve it. You need to look back in your life, and not think that these are tests, and that in the end you'll get a prize. But look back and see all the goodness you've done, all the people you've helped. And realize that despite the end, you've lived a life as good as you can. That in the end it doesn't matter, you were good, and then you can feel the awesomeness that is hope, and the grace that comes from knowing you are a mirror that reflects God and that your partner and Father is proud. I don’t have a lot of time for typing but now, so here’s a short response for once.

I believe that for you to really worship God, really be Christian, you have to first tell yourself there is no heaven. Not “there is no hell”, it’s easy to think that God is all rainbows and butterflies and wouldn’t create a hell. If there was no heaven, would you still worship God?

The test of life isn’t the “Don’t break the cosmic laws and you get into the club”. But would you be good, if like Job or Jesus, you got nothing back? Did Jesus get something in return? He went back to what he was, so really he didn’t gain anything. Job got more children, but does that bring the others back?

When you truly believe there is no heaven, in concept, for I am sure there is. When you think that you will never be good enough to “Earn” or “deserve” heaven. Would you still follow justice, goodness and the light?

I found my answer to be yes. I want to be good just because it feels good to be good. I want to because it fills me up with light and hope. Then God is no longer a bouncer you’re trying to get to let you in the club. God is the only partner you can trust to feel the same. God, or what I worship, despite having the choices, power and authority to do whatever he wants, _wants_ to be good. He gets no reward, no material gain, no prize. He wants to be good because he wants to be good. God is not only your pastor, but your shadow, and your cane. The light which shines so bright from him shows the shadow of what he and you could be. The strength from knowing that even He wants to be good supports you as you walk.

When you realize that for you there is no heaven, you will never earn it. And accept that you will not enter it from whatever you do, or whatever you believe, you feel a lightness within you, that you want to be God’s warrior despite the outcome. People say, “We don’t deserve heaven” only to follow it with “but”, then saying that Jesus can let you in, or some other thing. They think that by saying they don’t deserve it it means they’re humble and God will let them in… but then they are saying they _will_ go in because they deserve it.

You need to look back in your life, and not think that these are tests, and that in the end you’ll get a prize. But look back and see all the goodness you’ve done, all the people you’ve helped. And realize that despite the end, you’ve lived a life as good as you can. That in the end it doesn’t matter, you were good, and then you can feel the awesomeness that is hope, and the grace that comes from knowing you are a mirror that reflects God and that your partner and Father is proud.

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