BENEATH…

Ab-ra-ka-blah-blah!
Poof!

In a crazy spur-of-the-moment last night I eventually called Baljit and said we can watch Harry Potter, after saying no that same day, in the morning. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t say no because it is Harry Potter and that it has sorcery and magic and stuff in it… no. I haven’t reached that point of being legalistic about stuff like these ya know. And if you’re also gonna ask me about MJ’s death, I would rather say he was a great performer and I admire him than “oh… he’s from the devil or some sort like that”. Anyway, I was meaning to say that yes, I am entertained by these HP movies and so I always give it a go, if I had the moolah and the time.  So I had moolah and though it was late, that was gonna be my free time for the entire week. It was nice and I am now finding Harry Potter (Radcliffe) cute.

Today, I received an email you know, these forwarded messages. It had a nice title so I was curious. So I opened this forwarded email and read it. It was  a touching story and it had the Lord, and the faith in it. It was nice. But at the end, there it said:

PASS THIS ON TO BLAH BLAH NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND “THEN” THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL FILL YOU AND BRIGHTEN YOUR LIFE IN JUST AN HOUR.

Okay what’s up with these forwarded messages? Sometimes we also try to do our own version of magic too, not with potions or magic words but acts like these: that if we do this, or do that, the Lord will do this or that. Or the Lord will bless you etc. etc. Have we once again put God in a box and think we can control Him by our acts? Or even by our prayers?

We, instead,  should ask in faith and believe that He cares, and listens to our prayers. But if He doesn’t give us our requests, He is God and He knows better. We’ve most of the time forgotten that He is God. And most importantly, He gives His Spirit to those who would ask in faith. “Ask and you will receive.”

Let us not confuse faith with magic brothers and sisters.
Or I’ll carry a stick and point it to you saying:
“Be still, Our God is God, and He loves you;
rest in Him and His word.”