Everyday Devotions by an Ordinary Christian

Everyday Devotions by an Ordinary Christian

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

We Are Like Robots(Wandering our focus away from God)

Lately, I have been busy with school and tests, and exams are coming up. By this time of year the teachers are cramming all the projects and assignments before the holiday and we just want to get them done before the break. I have been stressed out and focusing on school that I had forgotten what is more important and what matters more. I had stopped reading my bible and I have had very short prayers because of sleeping too late that I was too tired to pray sincerely. At this time, I really need the Lord to guide me and give me and understanding and peace so that I won't be stressed out, but instead I have said, "I don't have time for you God, I need to finish all my studying and school is more important than you right now." Even a little thing like school can take us down the wrong path filled with more potholes than we could imagine, more problems that just grow larger as we wander farther down that dark path. We can lose our focus on God and we can forget about him, our creator, the One who created us with the brain that we are using right now to study with! The way I think about God is like he is the designer and the inventor, we are his robots that he created, he had programmed in us to love each other and to love God, but something went wrong and we rebelled against Him. Now imagine you had created a robot and you created them with a brain and knowledge to know what is right and what is wrong, you would think that it would know what is right to do since it has the knowledge to do so. Instead, it starts doing all these wrong things and thinking that it is more superior than you are, the one who created it in the first place, and does not listen to your commands. We are like that robot. (I am not implying that God controls us, it is just another way to view God's superior) We wander away from God to do all these wrongs and say that we do not need God, we are better off than Him. Doesn't that sound silly? A creation believing that it is more superior than it's creator? That's how I was feeling in the past couple weeks (not more superior though), I didn't think of thanking the Lord for everything He had blessed me with, I was just asking for good marks on my tests and expecting them, I didn't even ask for guidence through my studies. I was just like a demanding Robot.

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