Patrikin – Kinship through The Father

God and Satan talk in the Bible and it looks like a giant chess game with Job’s family as the pawns. In the garden God calls to Adam, “Where are you?”, but doesn’t he already know? Joshua is told by God to leave no survivors; where is the love and mercy in that?! People are offended by these and other scriptures, sometimes wanting nothing to do with God because if it.

We expend so much effort to avoid being misunderstood but God, the most misunderstood one of all, spends none.

Why? He doesn’t say (go figure).

But I think we can learn two (2) things:

1. We need to know and love him as he is and on his terms — not how we want him to be on our terms.

Peter said it best when asked if he, too, would leave that day like the others who had misunderstood one of Christ’s teachings,

“Lord, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68b)

2. We need to stop expending so much energy to avoid being misunderstood.

Do what you think Jesus wants you to do then let it go.

— fritz.