Has anyone noticed how obsessive Christians are with the prosperity message? Doesn't anyone realize that God's hands give AND take away? Or is the Bible just an added perk to being a Christian and not really something to be understood? It seems no Christians are face-seekers; they all just want the comforting pat and the brand-new car out of God. I want more. Desperately. If He's God, He'd better be something better than a vending machine. I want to have His presence surround me, like it did Moses. You could tell that man had been with God because he glowed. Crazy. I've only met one person in my life who glowed. I wish I did.
I think God really is a jealous God. Once, the Greeks and other pagan cultures believed you couldn't be too happy or too much in love, because the gods would seeyour happiness and be jealous and destroy it. I think...they may have had a point. God knows what we're dependent on, and if it's something besides Him, I think maybe...He takes it away. Does it seem that way to anyone else? Does that seem like blasphemy?
Here's an Emily Dickinson. I love her works. I don't agree with all of it, but it makes sense in some situations.
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant--
Success in circuit lies
Too bright for our inform Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
An explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or everyman be blind--
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