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 While
home for the holidays I “sat up” for some late TV shows, and
heard Eddie Albert do his prayer “thing”. He is highly
talented, and “did” it well; but the product was another of
the current sickening series of illogical and uninformed charges
against God.
Sometime
back a popular singer sang, “If I Owned the World —”
everything would be lovely. He would make everyone act just
right. Later, and still popular, the crooners tell God,
“What The World Needs Now — Is Love.” We have enough
fields and mountains, they say, but God, “if you want to know”
— we need more love.
Now
Eddie upbraids God, and practically orders Him to “make
everyone love one - another.” One gets the impression from all
of this that God must be a real dunce not to see the needs in
His world; or worse yet, He must not care what takes place here.
He is even charged with being responsible for our ungodly mess.
I
do not charge a “conspiracy” and for all I know these
singers and actors have so little faith and concern in the
reality of God as to be totally insensible to the affront they
offer. The injustice and sacrilege of the matter will only
appear to those to whom God is real, and who know, by
revelation, something of His nature. Oddly enough, I even like
the songs as music, but am repulsed by a more general
consideration of the attitude and social status they represent.
We
are ensnared by a philosophy of corporate sin — the world
is sinful — society is a mess— and we can somehow
escape individual responsibility and guilt by
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making blanket charges against “the
establishment”.
We
will adjure God, “Make everyone love his neighbor!” as if
God had not thought of that centuries past — to use relative
terminology. Do we really want this kind of “love” — this
kind of slavery?? Man’s free- will must be destroyed
— he must no longer be left free to choose — he must love
me; for which I can feel little joy or gratitude, seeing it is
forced upon him!! Is this really “love”??
A
completely dominated police state has “peace” — of sorts.
Would we have God become our arbitrary ruler — and all good
become a farce? But someone says, “God should make us so we really
love one-another with our own free will.” There is inherent
contradiction in the very statement, making this nonsensical
foolishness. Of such, C. S. Lewis wrote, “It remains true that
all things are possible with God: the intrinsic
impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more
possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry
out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; but because His
power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense
even when we talk it about God.” (Problem of Pain, pp. 16)
God
is love, and proved His love in Christ; offering not only
instruction and perfect example, but forgiveness for our
failures. (1 Jn. 4: 10-f.) WE MUST CEASE BLAMING GOD FOR OUR OWN
FAILURES: AND OFFER PENITENT PRAYERS.
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