Luke 18
This chapter starts out with the widow
who hassles a judge day after day
until he finally relents just to get rid of her.
I don't really understand this parable,
because to me if you are right with God
and your prayer fits the will and the way,
it should be granted upon first thought.
If not, it won't.
So I am uncomfortable about those who pray for the same thing
over
and over
and over again
and again
and again.
but I'm moving on...
to something that happened in my life:
At lunch one day, a co-worker said,
"I hope in the next life, you're not in it!"
He might have been teasing,
but the thought stuck with me...
In the next life we probably won't be together.
He believes that this life is all there is.
when you die your body becomes worm food,
and that's the end of it.
I believe that like a mother is a womb for an emerging body,
this physical body is a womb for an emerging spirit,
and that the end result might not be viable.
WHO IS RIGHT?
If he is right,
I will have lived my life trying to choose love over selfishness,
and I don't think there is a higher goal to strive for.
but we wont be together in the end.
If I am right,
God allows us to choose whether or not we will turn away,
and he honors the choice made by those who turned away.
For those, there will be no afterlife with God.
no viable spirit.
In that case (unless my co-worker changes),
we won't be together.
Either way,
won't be seein' ya...
Doesn't that sound harsh?
I guess it never really sunk in
until I heard that comment,
that the people around me
are part of a temporary arrangement.
kinda makes ya think, huh?
who hassles a judge day after day
until he finally relents just to get rid of her.
Luk 18:7
And shall not God avenge His own elect
who cry day and night to Him,
though He has been long-suffering over them?
I don't really understand this parable,
because to me if you are right with God
and your prayer fits the will and the way,
it should be granted upon first thought.
If not, it won't.
So I am uncomfortable about those who pray for the same thing
over
and over
and over again
and again
and again.
but I'm moving on...
to something that happened in my life:
Luk 18:17
Truly I say to you,
Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child
shall in no way enter into it.
At lunch one day, a co-worker said,
"I hope in the next life, you're not in it!"
He might have been teasing,
but the thought stuck with me...
In the next life we probably won't be together.
He believes that this life is all there is.
when you die your body becomes worm food,
and that's the end of it.
I believe that like a mother is a womb for an emerging body,
this physical body is a womb for an emerging spirit,
and that the end result might not be viable.
WHO IS RIGHT?
If he is right,
I will have lived my life trying to choose love over selfishness,
and I don't think there is a higher goal to strive for.
but we wont be together in the end.
If I am right,
God allows us to choose whether or not we will turn away,
and he honors the choice made by those who turned away.
For those, there will be no afterlife with God.
no viable spirit.
In that case (unless my co-worker changes),
we won't be together.
Either way,
won't be seein' ya...
Doesn't that sound harsh?
I guess it never really sunk in
until I heard that comment,
that the people around me
are part of a temporary arrangement.
kinda makes ya think, huh?
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