God is a Father, not a mother-in-law

A thought occurred to me a few years ago about people blaming God for not interfering in a situation to prevent what they percieve to be a disaster. There have been people who say that we don't know the whole picture and just need to trust God, and they are right to a high degree. But there is more to see here.

What is it that we ignore when we do this to God?

Suppose you had a relative or friend (I'll say mother-in-law because of the cliche and to be tongue in cheek. My mil is a wonderful lady) who was constantly interfering uninvited. You'd be pretty angry, wouldn't you. Or even if it wasn't constant, but she just did it once. You'd still be angry if the advice or action was not asked for. And you'd be justified in that.

So why be angry at God when He DOESN'T do that? He waits to be invited. Isn't it a contradiction to be angry at Him for NOT doing something you'd be angry at others if they DID do? So the church isn't the only place where there's "hypocrites" (BTW, only the world sees true Christians as hypocrites. God Himself knows and tells us that we're not perfect, and so do we).

7 Days?

I posted this first on my Evidence of God blog, but it is more along the theme of this blog, so I will re-post it here:

Something to Think About:

Did you know that it is very reasonable to think that the Earth was made in 7 days -- IF YOU KNOW HOW BIG GOD IS!!!!!

I was thinking about this the other day when a thought occurred to me.How long does it take you to make a salad? 15 minutes? About that, anyway.

Now suppose 2 ants were on the salad. Imagine one ant telling the other that you had made the salad in 15 minutes. The second ant might not believe it. After all, it would take an ant days to make that salad. He would think that making a salad in 15 minutes was IMPOSSIBLE, and an unbelievable claim. "15 minutes to make this whole salad? No way!" he might think. How could something that would take him days to make be done in 15 minutes?

But we are much, much bigger than the ant. The ant would have to assemble one piece of a lettuce leaf, then another piece, then another, and so on. But we are big and strong enough that we could assemble all of the lettuce at once, then all of the tomato at once, and so on. And so is God. Compared to God, we are mere ants or even smaller.

Could we make the world in 7 days? No way! Could something as big and strong as God make the world in 7 days? No problem