All of us yearn for the fantasy world of fairy tales being in need of a king, a warrior to rescue us, irrespective of our gender. In present times, we have transitioned from a mellowed down prince to action packed Hollywood superheroes (one wonders where they were when the Taliban forces were taking over Afghanistan? So much for being superheroes!!!). We have been brainwashed into believing these fictional characters and as a casualty God becomes one of them.
We expect God to come and sweep away all our troubles and rescue us from our crisis situation with no effort from our side. My dear friends, even Cinderella had to clean up and dress up appropriately to attend the ball and meet her handsome prince. We continue to wallow in our sins and debauchery and still expect God to keep blessing us. Is it because we throw alms to God in the form of rites and rituals and trick Him into believing we have changed? Where is our sense of reverence, fear and commitment from our part to reconcile with God, to even stay alive, leave alone receiving blessings from Him?
We want this fairy tale god to provide us immense wealth, allow us to be promiscuous and give us leverage to lie and cheat. In reality, it seems ridiculous for us to believe a God who is alive, holy, pure and just. At this point, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is it is impossible for us to achieve a happy ending to our life, living and breathing sin. The good news is we can experience Godly romance in accepting the love of Jesus Christ as the Bible says, “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted;..." Now does that not sound like the king or savior we are all looking for.
Jesus Christ gave His life so that we may not perish in our wretchedness but spend our entire eternity with Him in royalty. He promises us this by saying, "they will [be privileged to] see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads...; and they will reign [as kings] forever and ever.". This is the reality with a fairy tale ending. The world has messed up our minds into thinking we can become good by doing good works. We are so wrong. Our goodness comes from God alone and if we want to be kings and queens happily ever after, we need to submit our lives to Jesus Christ who can give us that very privilege, if we accept Him and put our trust in Him. But are we ready, is a point to ruminate my future kings and queens?
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