What is that in us that makes us want to
believe in a lie? Is it our ignorance? Or our superficial life style? Or our
selfishness? Yes, you heard it right - selfishness. Our believing in a lie
could start off as ignorance but even after knowing the truth we still want to
go with the lie because we have got comfortable with it or we want to be
accepted by the majority.
God our Heavenly Creator made us for one
simple reason, to have a relationship with Him. The catch here is once we have
a relationship with God we have to mirror His character in our day to day life.
This is the most inconvenient part in this demand. So as humans best do, we
have taken the short cut to having various religious rituals. Here starts our
selfishness. Because we want to carry on with our agendas and not follow God's
commands, we have created rituals which are a lie. Let's be honest! Do you
really think if we perform some ritual we can become pure with having zero intimacy
with God. We have come to believe the lie that by being ritualistic we are
intimate with God. The means has replaced the destination. That's a big
"NO" my friends.
God says in the Bible, "I am the
way, the truth and the life." God our creator made life simple for us
being the embodiment of truth but we find it so hard to believe our obeisance
to God could be that simple by accepting Him as "The Truth." The very
fact of the statement makes us stagger because we have believed in a lie for
generations that an all powerful God demands complicated worship. We
thought we could fool God by all our rituals but not surrendering our true self
to Him. We prefer to give importance to rituals and continue with our
depravity of mind but never wanting to surrender ourselves to God because deep
down we know we need a major overhauling.
My friends, let start being honest with God.
For starters let's be truthful to our Heavenly Maker. All He expects from us is
an intimate relationship with the one He created " fearfully and
wonderfully". Begin to give importance to Him keeping your selfishness
aside and change yourself if needed. Your rituals are not going to take you to
heaven. It's your intimacy with Him.
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