13. HAVE HUMAN BEINGS LEAVE TO TELL GOD WHAT HE HAS TO DO WITH THEM?
The answer is a big NO. Most people all over the world think they know more than God Almighty Himself. Their propensity of ever telling God what He has or has not to do render God Almighty foolish. God does not need anybody to remind Him of His responsibilities. God has created everything in the firmament, on earth and even under the waters of the seas without any assistance from human beings. God knows everything concerning His creation. He knows everything just as the manufacturer of a machine knows everything about his machinery. He knows when to service it, and what kind of service it will be, manor or major. He knows what to replace and what to polish up.
God is more responsible than mere manufactures of this world. To tell God what He has to do with one's life is a waste of one's time. God knows a person before he is born. He chooses without being held accountable, a person's race, country and continent. Although most people have resettled themselves to countries of their choices, yet they could not change what God Almighty made them to be.
God does with people as He pleases. As a farmer does with his herd and flock. God does not abuse His powers. That is why a tyrant is always doomed. That is why warmongers never have peace within themselves. That is why murderers never have peace of mind. God has made it to be like that under nobody's assistance or command.
It is very much presumptuous of people to give God instructions and commandments. People have to learn to only give thanks to God for all He has done for them. They have to thank God for:
a) The well mixed air they breathe.
b) The life sustaining rain as well as spring water freely given.
c) The life they have.
d) The ability to think and communicate.
e) The fact that they rule over all His creation.
f) Each day that dawn and each night that engulfs them.
g) The seasons of each year.
People have to learn to thank God Almighty all the time.
If people really appreciate what God Almighty has done and is constantly doing for them, they would be stopping at each and every passing hour and silently give thanks to Him. People would always be talking of His mercy and love. People would be living peacefully with one another here on earth. And I am sure that God merciful as He ever is, will be renewing the universe before them. God Almighty would be bringing to an end all afflictions human beings are presently experiencing here on earth. God Almighty would be changing desert areas to fertile agrarian areas.
Read Palms 147:7-8 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praises upon the harp unto our God: who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. (The Holy Bible Revised Version)
Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you - the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. (NKJV)
Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. (The Holy Bible Revised Version)
Amos 4:7 “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. (HBNIV)
God knows everything and He does not need any one to remind Him of things He has to do or not to do to people and for people on earth. God gave people power to think. People (Adam and Eve) ate the fruit of knowledge thereafter they and all people after them were able to make choices as we still do to this day without God Almighty's intervention. If a person makes wrong choices God Almighty never intervenes. If a person decides to end his life God will never stop him from doing so. If a person betters his life in any acceptable way, God will neither subtract from nor add to it. It has to be what it should be. God never keeps on making adjustments. If one wishes, one can persuade or dissuade oneself. All is up to each and every one of us. People also can encourage or discourage one another. God allowed for it to be within each and every one of us to do so.
People have to learn to give God all honour, glory and reverence. People have to learn to stop instructing God . It is only those in the upper rung who command those below them. God Almighty is always in the upper echelon. To God Almighty we are all in the lowest rung. Here on earth no one can command his king or governor, yet people young and old find it very much easy to give God instructions in their endless pleas and grievances. Some take God for their servant. In their prayers they boldly order him to do this and that for them.
God is King of kings and Lord of lords. What kind of a king is it that could be easily instructed by his subjects? On earth there is no such a king. It seems as if when people pray, they totally forget that they talk to their king, God Almighty.
Question: What about those who are somehow mentally retarded? Surely prayers have to be sent to God asking Him to improve their brain power.
Answer: God Almighty never created any retarded person. People he created, Adam and Even were physically perfect human beings to strut the earth. For a person to be born retarded, or to go mad depends on circumstantial outcome. Sometimes one becomes retarded due to the way one's parents behaved when one was still young or when one was conceived. If a mother turned alcoholic or continued doing drugs, the chances are her baby could be born mentally retarded or with a syndrome. God Almighty has nothing to do with that. If one injures one's head and get retarded thereafter, God Almighty cannot be blamed for that. Only proper medication can somehow better one's condition.
Question: What about a person born blind or deformed? Surely prayers have to be sent to God asking Him to improve their state of life.
Answer: No one has to blame God Almighty for people like that. Such people are the result of something that has gone wrong within the bodies of their parents. That is why parents have to go for medical tests and check-ups during pregnancy. If something weird is detected in the unborn baby such a pregnancy should better be terminated early. To perform unnecessary abortion is tantamount to murder. Promiscuous people who later perform a lot of abortion on themselves flay their souls. If a person is born blind or deformed, it is then incumbent upon all people closer to him to give him love, comfort, respect, support and make him feel good as a human being. No matter how disabled or retarded a person can be, the truth is he is also a human being. (EKR)
Christians who under imperative conditions have to ask God for something, have to do so through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ himself is ever ready to hear and give answers to their prayers. Read John 16:24 “Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. (NKJV) Surprisingly His disciples never asked Jesus for anything till the time of his ascension.
Question: What made them not to ask so their joy might be full?
Answer: His disciples knew that one who asks is one really in need. Some Christians whenever they pray they ask for something like spoiled children. Peter and John made use of the power of the name of Jesus Christ some time later on, calling upon the name of Jesus Christ and the lame stood up and walked at once. They then explained to all who were perplexed and dumbfounded by their action saying in Acts 4:10 “…let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.” (NKJV)