Who Does God Want To Change?
Who does God want to change? I know my heart and want I want. God must hear my prayers.
Unfortunately, God centrally wants to change us. The people wanted Jesus to attack the Romans. Jesus had no interest and never spoke against the Romans. Jesus kept telling the Jews to be more humble.
He says the poor are blessed. God often shows little interest in helping me against my enemies like I want Him to. Jesus asks me to love them.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Jesus wants to change us and not the other guy. Politicians always say it is the foreigners who hurt you. It makes us happy, “Yeah! it is the other guy.” No politicians will say you guys are sinners and need to repent.
Yet, that is exactly what we need. So….. we nailed him to the cross.
Who Does God Want To Change is a Question That Makes Me Think
We are a fallen race. We live far for what heaven’s culture is. Jesus described how valuable heaven is, like in the parable of the pearl of great price, but heaven’s culture is described more by the attitudes God likes as shown in beatitudes or the fruit of the Spirit.
Often we can act like these but have trouble being this way. Also, clearly humans were made to be a certain way, and we fell, and so we are not. How can we be others centered like God wants?
I sense God has lot he wants to do in us, to give us more of who He is. It is hard for us to receive.
As an aside, before the scientific revolution 500 years ago, Europeans were constantly spiritually oriented as the Earth was so unexplainable. So, in Bible times people’s base psychology was much more reliant on the spiritual world. Did the scientific revolution change us, so we think of God less?
Anyway, I want God to change others more than I want Him to change me is a sign of how lost we are. The Bible says we are lost, and this topic question reminds us that God said the truth when he said we fell.
Let’s love others and work on ourselves by God’s leading.
