No Disappointing God
It happened again. I read a devotional the other day that ended with, "...we must not let God down." And I took my pen and crossed it out. "Be gone, harmful idea!" If it were possible to take a phrase and do an autopsy on it, we would find more than the origins and use of a particular word -- the etymology. We'd uncover the raw human emotion, anxiety, and fear behind the phrase. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this claim that we sometimes disappoint God is really about shame and a lack of self-love. This concept of disappointing God -- who started this? I know the Apostle Paul instructs his followers to live a life that is pleasing to God. But the opposite -- displeasing -- is not the same as disappointing. (And frankly I'm going to have to meditate on the idea of displeasing God.) First, I highly, highly doubt that our behaviors, choices and actions have the power to affect God's "mood" one way or the other...