LET’S JUST BLAME GOD FOR EVERYTHING By Elephant in the Room, South East Asia
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope The above statement could possibly be why, how and what is wrong with Christians today. One simply doesn’t realise easy it is, be it intentional or not, to misinterpret passages and statements or to veer or reconstruct meaning to serve our own narrative, purpose or intentions. Because as the statement suggests, it is only natural that as human beings, it is our birthright to make mistakes, to be erring all the time, basking in our faults because we certainly are not perfect. Although, created in the image of God, we are perpetually sinful and wretched as can be, hence it is an innate behaviour that is expected from all of us. But isn’t it so fortunate for us all because God forgives by default? It is so convenient for us, to assume on our sinful ways as God is a vending machine of forgiveness, readily available to dispense pardon with extravagant generosity and benevolence at the turn of a knob and everything is back to sunshine and rainbows in a blink of an eye. How rouge we are with His Word that life is just perceived as peaches and cream under this notion of unconditional forgiveness that is always readily laid out in a bed of roses for us Christians? When will we ever learn? Human beings are an exquisite piece of work. Molded by love so divine and gracious, and in the image of God. But all that is reflective of God just ends right there – the image. We are so engulfed with the need to sin that we do not even realise how distant we are from our Heavenly Father. We are bitter, ungrateful, discontented and destructive towards the love he has showed us time and time again. We are so proud of ourselves, lording over species and even races because we’ve deemed how superior we are, how intelligent we are, how innovative we are, how ground breaking we can be in all our achievements that many often a time, we’ve forsaken everything that God has done for us. God has been sidelined because we have basked ourselves in our own glorious achievements that we subject The Almighty as the lifeline we would only fall back on when we are to fail ourselves, when we treat our faith like a little swiss army utility knife in our back pocket, only to swiftly whip out at the very last minute when all else proves futile. “A person's own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the LORD.” – Proverbs 19:3 And what could be the most atrocious thing? That we expect of God’s unconditional love and forgiveness but in return, we are not able to do the same. I hear it all the time, “Where were you God, when I needed you most, why have you chosen to forsake me in my hour of need?”.
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INSiGHT | October 2020
