The Gospel: NOT Choose God, BUT Become Christ

A response to a contact on Flickr:

All on earth and in the heavens accomplishes God's will.

And this is so whether we know it, or not, and whether we choose to do His will, or not.

The sun, the stars and the moon proclaim God, and so do kittens, and puppies and sunflowers.

The Pharoah of Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Cyrus of Persia, and the Romans, all fulfilled what God intended for Israel: to forge, destroy, restore it and finally to destroy it again.

And even when God's people have deliberately and blatantly opposed God's will, when it was revealed and made known to them in no uncertain terms, even so is God's will fulfilled.

Israel was not to have a king, but the Israelites asked God for a king, in defiance to what God said. And God listened to them and gave them Saul. And from Saul we have David. And from David, we have adultery and murder and Batheseba. And from Bathseba we have Solomon. And from Solomon we have Jesus.

We will not and cannot know what if Israel have not asked for a king. But we can be certain that we will have Jesus revealed in due time.

And so who and what are we?

We did not choose God, just as we, and nobody, chose us to be born. Even your parent didnt know its you they were making. We are who we are solely due to, and for, the will and purpose of God.

Whether we come to know of this God in our later lives, is again not of our choice. We have no say in the time, places, circumstances, and environment in which we will grow up or die.

But we know and can be assured that all accomplished God's will, even unknowingly and unwillingly, just as every ant that crawls on the earth and every wind that blows where we know not, do so too.

And we are born again, chosen to know him again solely due to, and for, the will and purpose of God.

So now that we know, what then?

Then we now know that we are children of God, and we call God our Father.

And we can reject God, but we cannot reject who we are.

And unless we become who we are, we will be like fish out of water, ontologically out-of-joint, and irrelevant and meaningless, to ourselves, and everyone else.

So we do what we do because of who we are.

We did not choose to do God's will because we seek to please him and to seek his favour and blessings. But rather we do God's will because we are part of God himself, as his children, being what we ought to be.

His love and care for us has nothing to do with what we do, or what we don't, and whether we choose to do his will, or not. He send showers and sun to shine on all the world.

But denying ourselves and turning away from our identity, who we truly are, and who we are destined to be, hurts God bad, just as a parent hurts bad, when they see the potential in their children go to waste and or remain undeveloped.

And so we ought not to preach choice. Rather we ought to preach being.

We are to be, to continually become, the children of God, taking after the Father, even as Christ takes after the Father.

The gospel is not that you can now choose God, but rather that you are all children of God, that you can call God, Father. The gospel is not Choose God, but Become Christ.

And your purpose in life is to be this child, even as Christ was and is, and to live life.