Competing With God

Competing with God is never a wise choice. 

When I look around, I see tiny king and queendoms; perhaps they ought to be referred to as king-dumbs & queen-dumbs instead, considering the fact that the only King, unmatched and unrivalled, cannot be dethroned by conceited and puffed up humans, pretending to be greater than they are.  

The would-be kings and queens of this world see things as theirs, and they also see people as their subjects. To off with your head kings and queens, things and subjects are objects to be toyed with, used, manipulated, and disposed of when usefulness and utility are no more. To reiterate: things and subjects are made the same in the minds of royal wannabes, subjected to their whims and wills, so that their desires, wishes, and commands, are granted by servants at their beck and call. What I find most alarming and embarrassing too, is their commitment to steal top billing from God; they willfully attempt to usurp the Sovereign, and as I stated above, competing with God is never a wise choice. It is an exercise in futility when someone thinks their conniving and controlling ways, will eventually grant them that perfect place of commander, over things and people within their reach: that thinking, is criminal insanity in its demonic nature.  

Look at me, honour me, glorify me, deify me, bow to me, do as I say, or off with your head. Do you know a self-important person living in an empty castle constructed with cans, that wants to be worshipped as your god? Have you encountered a tiny heart in a small minded person, that would have you as their subject, obeying their every command, and threatening your safety when you do not submit? These dumb-dumbs are everywhere, and they strut their stuff, brag when lent an ear, assess, critique and criticize, with impunity, since after all, they are, royalty, and it is their due to condescend and comment.  

It is an abuse of power to employ it against the very ends for which it is given, Matthew Henry, Acts to Revelation, Volume 6, page 444. 

Mothers and fathers are given children to raise to be servants and good citizens of this world, with the goal of being family members in Christ's heavenly community. Our work is to glorify the God that made us, and yet, and yet, the tiny hearted and small minded among us, manage to twist the significance of sacred life, when they insinuate themselves onto their own self-appointed throne, as ruler of their domicile. While it is our duty to honour our fathers and mothers, it is never our duty to bow to them as our king, our queen, our liege. We become aristocratic when we belong, by God's grace, to his family, as adopted sons and daughters; it is our bowing to the King of kings that lifts us from the mucky mire of life on planet earth. There is much blundering, in those that refuse to submit to God's Lordship, and when they expect others to bask in their sullied man or woman made "glory". 

Matthew 12:46-50

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. 

Do you, dear reader, do the will of Jesus' Father, which is in heaven? If so, you can be sure you are considered family by Jesus! What a wonderful concept to consider! Unfortunately, there are members of your family that are the seed of Satan. It is our duty, we are commanded, to believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and to live our lives pledging our allegiance to him and him alone: and yet, so many people are self-committed to their own arrogant aggrandizement, and they would have you and I, equally committed as either their replicas, or their underlings. Imagine worshipping the image of God, and not God himself... now thats downright silly, isn't it?

Isaiah 43:10

Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

I end with an observation I feel compelled to share: It is cruel and unjust for parents to attempt to displace God in the minds and hearts of their own children. It is an abuse of the power given them, as stewards of God's created in his image, beings. 

How dare you, mother or father, try to kill God, so that you are the king or queen in your son or daughters life... 

How very dare you.