Are you a protector?

  

The biggest problem in the world today is when man with all his effort is trying to protect the God in whom He believes. Sadly, incidents of riot, killing one another for this cause has happened in the past and continues to happen around the globe. People are desperate to protect god, religious buildings, monuments, shrines, and religion by all means. Logically, it can be justified because man has erected the religious building, monuments, and shrines hence he thinks it’s his duty to protect the structure. Religious monuments and shrines are considered as the dwelling place of god, therefore religious sentiments overtake the actual faith in God.

It looks like man, (the created being) has allotted a place for god (who is the creator of the universe) and wants him to confine to that particular property. I don’t know how this is making sense but somewhere our passion and our faith on God is misplaced or rather wrongly positioned. The Bible clarifies this when referring to Jesus, “the God who made the world and everything in it -he is Lord of heaven and earth-does not live in shrines made by hands.”. It further claims this, “from one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”. It is so profound when it says, He has determined our appointed times as to what time-period we should appear on this earth and our exact boundaries, in other words where we should inhabit. And therefore, how could we allot a place and name a city after a god. Does this even sound logical?

Jesus never wanted His followers to fight for Him nor make a shrine and make it big. Unlike the many other religious stories, Jesus never waged war, captured kingdom nor commanded His followers to promote Him. It was Constantine after legalizing Christianity in 313 A.D introduced a place of worship and magnified the building and brought in Greek rituals and idol worship. His hidden intentions, as commented by historians, had political connotation. However, Bible strictly condemns idol worship and the worship of shrines. He is a God who indwells human heart. In fact, He condemned the religious leaders of His times by saying this, “woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.”. Unlike today’s demands for external purification, Jesus wanted people to cleanse their heart and ensure their sins are forgiven and they are accepted by Him. He is perfect in that sense to forgive us for all the dirty things that exist in our heart and make a dwelling place within our heart. We can make a commitment to accept this offer and be His child forever.

 

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