God's 'Read' Receipt.

(*This is a repost from a blog I used to run. I thought it might be more for Christians, perhaps m(_ _)m)

I'm fine on my own
I'm fine on my own
After I kept saying that
People around me stopped asking
If I was okay
And that's when I realized my current lonely state
My body and soul have stalled
I secretly send an SOS signal to God
But there's no sign of it being read
WHY? WHY ASK WHY? WHY?
Since asking won't give me an answer
If you like someone, you should tell them
Don't miss your chance
You should speak up when you need to
Let yourself go if you know that you want it

(Piece of me / m-flo)


The other day, I heard this m-flo song on the radio (lol)... I think it's a love song, but when I heard the part, 'I secretly send an SOS signal to God, but there's no sign of it being read. WHY? WHY ASK WHY? WHY?'... I thought, 'Wow, that's really clever' (^^;)

No, when I think about it, I feel like this is the point we complain about most to God as a question.

For example, when I was a non-Christian, I had that same mindset. I often thought that either 'God knows but has no intention of taking action' or 'God doesn't know in the first place, so He never reaches out a helping hand.'

In other words, even though He oversees and knows everything happening on Earth, it would be difficult even for God to grasp the personal worries and suffering of each of the over eight billion humans... Also, since it would be unfair to help only some of them, after setting up the minimum necessary living environment for humans, He generally does not intervene in anything that happens on Earth—I thought God was that kind of being.

However, once I was given the Holy Spirit, in my case, I stopped worrying about these things (^^;)

Because through the Holy Spirit, God—to put it in easy-to-understand terms—is like an administrator who grasps all computer data and internet information, and I realized that He actually knows everything.

Then, the question naturally arises: does God often access some information but rarely access other information (for example, the miserable state of war or the problem of homelessness)?

And regarding our prayers, there is also the very serious question of whether He is 'leaving them unread' or 'reading them and ignoring them' (^^;)

For example, if your wishes remain unfulfilled, you might feel like, 'God should know, so why is He reading my prayers and ignoring them?' In this case, the biggest problem—unlike that LINE feature—is that we have no way of knowing whether they are 'read' or 'unread'.

Also, if they were 'read' but your prayers were not answered... humans would think, 'Such a God is not God. What a terrible guy God is.' And if they were 'unread,' humans would get sulky and think, 'Well, God must be busy. But to leave them unread forever, such a terrible guy is not God. No, at least I wouldn't want to call such a guy God.'

But personally, I think (and this is just my personal opinion, okay? ^^;), that everything was made so that we wouldn't know until the 'later day'—and I feel that for God (= and for humans too), that is the best, the optimal choice...

Why is it the best? If humans were rewarded immediately for doing good deeds and punished immediately for doing evil... indeed, humans might work hard at doing good deeds just to please God, who gives rewards immediately.

But in that case—working hard for good in expectation of a reward is no different from a dog performing tricks in front of humans because it gets a treat immediately, and God naturally knew that the human heart is much 'deeper' than that.


>>The heart is more deceitful than anything else and incurable.
Who can understand it?
I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind,
To reward each person according to their way of life,
According to the fruit of their deeds.

(Jeremiah 17:9-10)


And regarding these matters, it is misplaced for humans to say, 'But you (God☆) created humans to be like that (deceitful) in the first place.'


>>Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
To him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
'What are you making?'
Or, 'The work you have made has no hands'?
Woe to him who says to his father, 'What have you begotten?'
Or to his mother, 'What have you brought to birth?'
(Isaiah 45:9-10)
The Bible says so.
When there is suffering in life, especially during adolescence or the teenage years, you might say to your mother, 'Why did you give birth to me?'

But when you grow up to a certain extent, you realize how unfilial those words are. In the same way, even if you lament, 'Why did you make me exist, God?', in the end, there is no answer from God.


Conversely, in my experience (and I think other Christians generally have the same view), like Job in the Book of Job, when you are full of complaints and dissatisfaction toward God, your prayers are often not heard. Of course, sometimes something else is given in return, as if to say, 'Your point is also valid,' or God gives that kind of comfort through the Holy Spirit, but I think prayers are often heard when you praise and thank the Lord with joy even in the midst of suffering.

In other words, rather than arguing with God about things like 'Why is △□ not ○□?', if you put the 'why' aside for a moment, entrust your suffering and sadness to God first, and prioritize gratitude and praise... that is when God's breakthrough for solving problems, which goes beyond being 'read' or 'unread,' is granted.

This part might be something you grasp through experience by reading the Bible and learning at church, but I feel there is a lot to learn by reading the faith testimonies of others, such as through the books on gratitude and praise by Merlin Carothers.

See you again~!!