But they neither listened nor paid attention; rather, they stiffened their necks, so that they wouldn’t have to hear or receive instruction.” Jeremiah 17:23
But to the wicked God says: “What right do you have to proclaim my laws or take my covenant on your lips, when you so hate to receive instruction and fling my words behind you? Psalms 50:16-17
God keeps showing me the main same things, which is about his instructions and we either obey them or we don’t. The instructions are there, written in teh bible, and he speaks to us and gives us his wisdom if we will simply listen.
So many people argue with me about being right with God and not sinning, but if you really knew him and how he works, and how if you would listen to him and obey him it all takes care of itself. Then you would know it is not only possible, but it is impossible to not be perfect in his way through obedience. The reason you do not understand how it can be done is because you prefer your religion instead of hearing and obeying the Lord. But why?
Maybe the main reason is we want a god we can boss around and give the commands to? Instead of an all powerful God full of wisdom and righteousness who instructs us? We have become mini gods demanding our own ways and expecting their god to obey the commands they give instead of the other way around. And interestingly enough you will argue no it is not like that, yet you then pray telling your god what to do. Bless this person and heal that one, get this one a job, and increase the wealth of the other one… All your prayers are demanding to a god who does not exist.
In doing this you are a stiffnecked person, one the true living God Yahweh does not hear, because he does not hear prayers like these.
But here is a second reason you do not hear him, he is completely different than how we think he should be. As the example he showed me early this morning, it was about being a bully. There is so much focus today about people bullying others, and in some cases it goes a bit overboard. I have had daughters claim they are bullied, and I somewhat believe them. BUT two things. First I also know these two daughters and who they are, and I have a pretty good idea why others would bully them or speak to them in the way they do. They bring a lot of it on themselves because of how they act.
But more importantly, what is the big deal? Many of the things that happened to me in my lifetime would be considered bullying. Because of my last name, many times I was quier Weier, or weirdo. I never let the kids bother me. And this is what we need to focus on. Let the people talk, but do not let it bother you. There will always be difficult people and if you do not learn how to deal with them, you will always be a cry baby and they will always make you feel bad.
But here was the main point, which is when you read some of the scripture in Leviticus and Numbers, and you see the way Yahweh talks. One could say he is a bully. He makes it clear to the people, if you do it my way it will be great, no problems as I will protect you, keep you full, no starvation. I will keep any sickness from you… BUT if you choose to disobey me and make idols and worship and bow down to idols, I will bring the same plagues on you as the Egyptians. I will scatter you and let the evil men overtake you.
Yahweh says other things but you get the point. He tells the people straight up, do it my way or else. This seems to be the main reason we developed this “christian” religion of a god who saves you because of grace and wants you to tell him how to do things as if he does not have enough wisdom to know it all himself. Think about this last statement, because that is how we boss God around, as if he needs our input because he isn’t smart enough to know the best way to do things. And this is why God does not hear you, why would he even pretend to entertain your whining and crying and demanding attitude?
The other day I mentioned my mom, and she comes to mind again. She would say things like “God take this chemo and take it directly to the cancer and kill it.” And then feel sorry for herself when things did not go her way. How many of you, if you really think about it, you would have to admit you have done the same?
I did, when I lost my family through divorce, and lost my career and all my money all at once. I cried for myself and felt it was injustice, and wondered why God would allow something like that to happen to me? I can say I never told God what to do or how I wanted to fix it. However I also told God I cannot take it any more so please stop it. And then he did NOT stop it, but turned the fire up even hotter.
Even after I started to hear Yeshua speak to me, at first I thought it was a once or twice in a lifetime thing, not something you were supposed to do constantly. Which we are constantly because that is what it means to walk in the Spirit. The Lord reminded me about how I told him what I wanted in my next woman in my life. She had to be a few things, like working out and staying fit, enjoy sex, I cannot remember the others but there were 5 points. God gave me a woman who fit them all and I thought this would be perfect. But she liked sex a little too much and cheated on me. And many of the other things I wanted also ended up not being such a good requirement.
So after we split, I told God “I am not sure if another woman is for me or not. It is your will be done. But if you bring another one to me, you bring what is best for me.” And he brought me Cinthya. Now Cinthya and I have butted heads many times in our relationship, and we are just now after 15 years married getting into a really good groove. I assumed because God brought us together we would be in a good grove from day one. But that was not his plan.
His plan was to take the good points in me and use them to help Cinthya, and the good things in Cinthya to help me. Being from the USA and her Mexicana, we had major cultural differences on top of the normal male female differences. Plus we are both strong willed and like things our own way. On paper we would never work out, but in Yeshua we are perfect.
Yeshua has used her and the Mexican culture to teach me things I never would have come to understand about myself and the world in which we live. And vice versa. But the main thing her has taught us both is to receive his wise instruction and then obey him. To overcome ourselves and the evil in us. Again everyone has evil in you, and the good guess would be if you polled 1,000,000 people on how they pray, they all pray in a selfish similar manner as described above. Only those who come to know the Lord and obey his voice would say differently, so do not feel bad if you pray in this manner, but also we must repent of it and change to do it right in Yeshua. Pray right and live right as the two go hand in hand.
Last point returning to the bully thing and God. This doctrine we follow and believe is what keeps us from knowing God, and it makes us fulfill the doctrine of “what God thinks is good, man sees as bad. And what God sees as bad, man sees as good.” Man sees this behavior of God as being a bully and sees it as being of satan, which then causes men to blaspheme the Holy Spirit by calling it evil. Keep in mind this, there are mystical things with God but really most of it is simply how you act and what you believe. Being Holy is not some special magical or mystical thing. Being Holy simple, we just have to hear and obey the Lord and do things his way. The only right (or righteous) way. But you also have to understand who God is and how he is, because this world and the men teachers have changed him into something we do not recognize when we see him. And this is why when I walked as the rest of the men in the world, no one ridiculed me or said anything like you call that being a “christian” or Godly? When now I get it often, because of the God I came to know. The same one who made me walk in righteousness and clean my act up. So my works are works of righteousness and good works I was created to do, bearing good fruit instead of bad. That same God also does not let me walk in dysfunction and makes me call it out in others. And they do not like it, they prefer a “christian” they can walk all over and take advantage of. Or one who will party with them and do sinful things with them. Get drunk, chase women and curse a lot. They do not like it when you change and no longer do the same things you used to do.
Many times I have heard how I am not of God, and a few lately. Even my own dad said I am following an evil spirit simply because I told him the Lord told me not to watch TV anymore. It seems it had been on his mind a while because he did not like other things I was starting to do differently and said it was things God showed me. My dad liked it when I watched sports with him and we talked about the games. It gave us a common bond. Now we do not have much of a bond in anything, he still watches his sports and I don’t, except when I am with him and he has it on. It gives us something to talk about.
But I digress, the point is simple. We do not see the true living God for who he really is. And our doctrine or worldly beliefs make us come up with a completely different God in our minds. And as said we also have made up new names for God, calling the messiah Jesus Christ when his real name is Yeshua. We think his good is evil, because we do not know him. And see the true God as some sort of bully.