WHY GOD?
By: Full Woman Full Spirit
Tags: God, Faith Rooted, Salvation, Christianity, Christian Living

I have been meaning to write this post for a while now but I was not sure how, or what range it should take. I should say that this article came as a result of discussions and thoughts I have had for a while now. God for me means more than I can write in words, or express to anyone. I first came to understand this growing up as a child in a home in which my mother was christian and my dad was well seeking what “God” meant to him.

The years have gone by and as a woman I have been “questioning” my own faith and asking myself why I am a worshiper in God and if it is real or imagined. Now before you conclude I am a christian and will always remain one, however it is necessary for me to constantly review my walk with God and ask the critical questions lest I become complacent and prideful.

Why do you serve God is it because of love, or is your relationship based on fear?. While the scriptures speak about fear of God in terms of reverence which is good the question is do you love God?. I ask these questions because these days God seems like a means to an end, like the focus has shifted from him to us, and our endless needs and wants. It has become a relationship based on what God will do for us and provide, rather than an actual relationship with him that stems from love and worship.

This does not in any way mean that God does not provide, the bible says all things work together for our good, still that is not all that there is to God. He is more than providing for our endless needs to being that friend/father/King that he is. Imagine having a friend who only came to you because they wanted something from you, and disappeared only to come back again when they discover they have a need need that you can satisfy?. Many people would be pissed, that is how it feels when we only go to God with I want this or that. A relationship is beyond what you can get from a person and that is exactly what a relationship with God ought to be.

Jesus refers to us as friends and in some places as brothers, which means that there is a relationship that exists that is not predicated on wants, and that relationship needs to be nurtured, groomed attended to just like the relationship we have with our friends and family.

I asked this question on my twitter page about a week ago and one of the responses was the fear of hell. While the Bible speaks clearly about hell and those whose names are not in the book of life, I think serving God without love denies a christian of a relationship with God. Imagine being in fear of your earthly father all the time and always trembling that he would punish you, terrified of his very presence? now that is not what God desires from us. God loves us and thus our relationship with him is based on love. Does that mean that hell does not exist yes it does but rather than focusing on fear we focus on loving God and recognizing that his love gives us the grace to live a life that is worthy of him.

The thing is all I have talked about is not exhaustive, but I think we need to change our thoughts as it relates to God and recognize that we are created for more things that do not necessarily include wealth, and us but rather a relationship with God first and in service to those around us.