Works are an attempt to be someone that you are not. If works are not the result of an expression of your true nature, then they are an expression of falsehood, perhaps even desperation or deceit. If such attempts hardly ever please people – why do we believe that they will please God? Sometimes we tend to think that God is completely out of touch with reality. Perhaps we get this idea from the ancient setting that the Bible was written in and from the archaic language of the King James Version.
We can assume that God has rather odd preferences because of what we read in the Bible. There is something seemingly rather strange about the way that God delights in animal sacrifices. It becomes hard to work out why God would get anything out of a man killing an animal and sprinkling its blood all over the place. But we read the significance of such sacrifices in the Bible. Nevertheless, it still seems difficult for us to comprehend with the natural mind.
Knowing that we cannot fathom God with our natural minds, we tend to just assume that God is delighted with nativity plays, handing out Bible tracts and other such religious ceremonies. Who is to judge whether or not God requires such things?
What we know and comprehend as being “normal” and acceptable and delightful, are an experience granted to us by the love of God. God lets us know through our spirit as to what we ought to consider being acceptable to ourselves. It is having God’s love in our spirit that gives a person the greatest sense of what is true, delightful and acceptable. So why do we think that God is somehow out of touch with reality? God is the closest thing we could ever experience to being right, true, delightful and acceptable.
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