PICK & CHOOSE
by
Anthonystjoseph
I am amazed sometimes at how the Universe
and its spiritual guides work… I am
dumbfounded, struck, and stuck in awe sometimes at the seemingly all
encompassing spiritual matrix that we live in, or at least that I live in
because the reality of life is that I can never be sure what world YOU live in. I
can only try to conceive the world that I am living in. This evening I was directed by certain events
to read Job 38 in the Bible and was shocked silly and stunned stupid with the
fact that this Job 38 was apparently God talking directly to me…
You see, I tend to have regular arguments
with God as to how he is handling things down here on this planet called Earth,
or more to the point, how He is NOT handling things down here on Earth. Sometimes to me, it seems that God is on a serious
vacation or has just adopted a serious lack of empathy for our situation. I have got to tell you again, since I have
told him more than a million times, I really have some serious problems with
the way he’s handling some of this mess we’re in. God’s suppose to be omnipotent, right, all
powerful, right, all knowing, right,…
Well GET ON IT! We’re DROWNING
HERE!
So, you get the point, basically, it’s
back and forth with me and God… So I,
like Job, who is the most famous pawn in mankind’s history, am faced with the
struggle of events I am dealt. And I’ve
said it before but I’ll say it again, God generally wins these arguments or he
leaves the room… It’s always the last
word with him. I’m usually screaming
when he leaves, ‘GET BACK HERE!’ Hey, we
go way back, God and I, he knows me; and I know HIM.
Well you know God rarely talks. God is a man of few words, you know the old,
‘I AM’ sort of guy… Well at least I
thought he was a man of few words…
So after I get the huge hint from above
this morning to go check out this certain Job Scripture I start to read Job 38
and I am shocked that God is finally talking!
I haven’t read every single part of the Bible nor have I read a lot of
the Bible. I tend to believe that God is
in your heart and if there is only ONE BOOK that you can find God in then there
is going to be a lot of the world left out and I just don’t think MY God is
like that so I don’t think a ‘single’ BOOK is the way to GOD! But there are some parts of the Bible and a
lot of ‘other’ Holy Books that I really get off on. So the truth is, I like to ‘pick and choose’ the stuff that rings
true to MY heart.
I happen to understand and comprehend the
fact that most of the Bible was written by man and man alone. I feel if you do want to feel the true God of
whatever than you need to let it speak to your heart of truth. I feel listening to the heart of good and the
heart of truth will take you to God.
Again, for this reason, I haven’t read the whole Bible although I know
most of the stories from church and Catholic School. In my opinion, some of those fools in the
Bible need to be put in check. People
like Leviticus really need to be put in check, when that guy is done throwing
rocks at people there’s nobody left alive and standing but HIM, and I think he
might even catch a rock or two.
I have always told this joke about how
when I get to Heaven I put up my fists and say, “Okay, WHERE’S LEVITICUS! Me and
him about to go some rounds.” The
angels look at me funny and they all say, “You didn’t think HE was here, did
you?”
So I start to read Job 38 and apparently
Job has lodged a lot of the same complaints at God that I have… You know the
ones, why this, why that, why this, why THAT…
It’s a very long list I and Job have for God as in, ‘what were you
thinking’. Well I pick up in Job 38 that
God has heard OUR complaints and he is truly pissed off and having a real life
natural celestial temper tantrum.
He starts off with, “Who is this who
darkens counsel by words without knowledge.”
Oh my, did you hear what God just said with THOSE words, he’s GOOD at it
I’ll tell you THAT! He basically just
said, who is this numb skull, talking out of the side of his ASS! I was like, ‘no he didn’t’… He was like, “YES
I DID!” You know he’s loud. Then he went on to tell me, “Prepare myself
like a man”, like he was getting ready to beat me down and calling me a punk. I AM a man!
Told me things like, ‘he’ll question me and I’ll answer’, ‘shut up’, and
so on… Then he went on a tirade and told
me “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth?” “Did I measure the Earth?” Asking me things like “DID I fasten the
foundations, DID I lay its cornerstone, DID I shut the sea in with doors, did
I, did I, did I,…” Geez, calm down dude,
we’re giving you credit for all that, but what have you done for us lately?
Then the Lord goes on to tell Job and I,
he’s losing breath I can tell, “And here your proud waves must STOP!” Oh goody gum drops, I don’t really take too
kindly to people telling me what to do so you know this is not going to work,
telling me to STOP. I don’t really let anyone tell me what to do
ever… There was that redneck in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who made me tinkle on
myself a little but that’s a whole different story. I didn’t know him like I know God.
Although I am sure my proud waves will
continue, I am going to read Job from beginning to end because I believe that
Job and I are going to live on the same block in Heaven and hang out at the
same clubs, because we both agree… We
are both proud men…
I
guess I should just be thankful for all the laughs that God provides us
with… I think God is a comedian at heart. I can see God on Judgment day when it’s my
turn saying, “Oh goody gum drops, I have been waiting for this. EVERYBODY SILENT! It’s Mister Pick and Choose. Hi Mister ‘Pick and Choose’. I’m about
to show you some ‘Pick and Choose’ alright.
I CHOOSE not to PICK YA! Ha-ha
that Mister Funny Man!” Yeah, God got
jokes.
By
Anthonystjoseph
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“I’m a philosopher. I’m not an evangelist… to say, ‘God did it,’
and then just leave it at that? That’s
to abandon the search before it’s even begun.”~ ’The River Why’
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