GOD or MYTH

GOD OR MYTH...

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

By Jon Walker

I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands . . . .” Daniel 9:4 (NIV)

Sovereignty simply means God has the right to rule. Submission simply means we agree we have no right to rule.

Ignoring God’s sovereignty allows us to live within a mythological universe where we are lower-lords ruling feudal lands where independence and self-reliance are worshiped as gods (Judges 17:6).

Like junkies, we need our mythology-fix to hold the illusion that we can do what seems right in our own eyes while still saying we belong to God.

But truth cannot allow mythology to masquerade as reality, and so when we ignore the sovereignty of God, we’re swarmed with the locusts of worry and doubt. Fists of fear pound mercilessly at our door and, like chalk on the boards we used to call black, fingers of alienation and accusations scratch at our windows.

When we say, “I can make this happen without you, God,” we steal God’s right to rule, like Promethean protégés intent on outwitting the Almighty. We think we’re stealing sovereignty only to find out our mythology is a lie, one that smells of evil embers from hell.

We can’t do Jesus-life alone, independent of God. When we abandon our mythology and submit to the sovereignty of God, only then do we become fully human, energized by the Holy Spirit to face our fears and to bring comfort to the world.

If you live like God is a fantasy, a mythological power you can call upon in crisis or during mid-terms, then Yahweh won’t seem real to you (i.e., God is real; you’re just not living according to that truth).
Jon Walker

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