Article 05 - Changes: Part 1.

CHANGE #1
I am no longer going to believe that I am better than God.


This is my son. His name is Sammy. I love him very, very much.

There is nothing that Sammy can ever do which will make me torture him for the rest of eternity. I will never boil him. I will never peel the skin from his bones, grow it back, and repeat that again and again and again. I will not sear out his eyes with firey pokers. I will not place him in an inferno full of ravenous beasts that will rip and tear away at his flesh as he screams in lonely and painful despair for even one drop of cool water to fall from above. I will not shove large spikes through his temples or wait for his bones to crush beneath the weight of my boot.


But if Sammy screws up... I have always believed that God would allow such things to happen. God had limits that I did not. I was able to love Sammy despite his worst conditions... but God was a hardliner... going by the book... and clearly defined by his limitations. Wrong was just wrong... and that was just that.

Am I better (more gracious, more loving, more patient, more gentle, more kind, more merciful) than God? I used to think so.

But I cannot think that way any longer. Now I am convinced that God is far better than I. He is more patient. He is more gentle. He is more kind. He is more gracious. He is more merciful. He is more forgiving.

When it comes to me... Sammy is in excellent hands.
When it comes to God... Sammy is in better.