Robotic Religion

What if your spouse only told you what you wanted to hear, and they never opened up to you about how they were really feeling. Do you think that would be a healthy relationship? I honestly wouldn’t like it. That would make me feel like she didn’t trust me with her feelings.

Why do we do that to God? If we have an offense toward God we don’t address it, and we just say, “praise your name!”

God didn’t create robots, men did. Religion has its robots, God has children. Children, like their father, have feelings. Jesus cried, he was angry, sorrowful, joyful. Yet, we treat God as if he has no emotion. Then we come to Him as though we should not have emotions. We try to hide our feelings and say this doesn’t coincide with the word so I must push it to the side.

I tell you that faith does not mean your feelings are gone. I see men of God in scripture flat-out angry and complaining to God. The only reason why we believe it’s spiritual to deny our feelings is because of an unhealthy view of what spiritualism actually is. We think that being spiritual means being free from emotion, but the most spiritual being in all existence showed us that he has feelings.

In Numbers 11 Moses straight-up asks the Lord, “Why are you afflicting your servant, and why have I not found favor in your sight that you would place the burden of this people on me? Did I give birth to them that you should tell me to carry them in my bosom into the land that you promised their fathers? I can’t provide meat for these people. I cannot bear the burden of these people alone, and if you are going to deal with me this way kill me I pray.”

A lot of people nowadays would be like, “Moses! Bro, you need faith! Don’t you know your feelings aren’t what’s true? What are you doing complaining to God if you had faith you wouldn’t complain.”

Jesus called the Pharisees white-washed tombs. I believe because outwardly they were doing and saying what they thought God wanted, but inwardly they were dead. Jesus said they search the scripture because they thought in them they had life, but the scriptures spoke of Him. And they weren’t willing to come to him that he would give them life (John 5:39-40). Come to Jesus and open up to him. Tell him what’s going on so that he can heal you and give you life. He already sees it, he just wants you to be honest with him.

God bless you guys! Be blessed in the name of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (Jesus the Messiah)!