I have played a lot of different different games in my life. From Uno, Apples to Apples, In a pickle, to Chutes and Ladders. "The Quiet Game" being my mom's favorite. When I was little, Pictionary was always my favorite, but that was before I played Quelf. Quelf has been a mandatory Camp tradition for years now. Back to Pictionary, which I am hoping y'all have played it before and know what it is. Basically, it's Charades for Artists. It can also be a highly offensive game where people accuse your realistic-looking popcorn as being clouds, or cotton balls. While watching anyone make, paint, or draw, well, anything for that matter, it's instantly turned into a game of 'Reality Pictionary' in my mind. As I mentioned before, my Dad and I worked on a mural together the new Vet Clinic in town. Actually, he did it, I helped, and he made what I painted look good... Just kidding, although, it is true. I was pretty proud of how my baby coons turned out though. Anyway, while painting one night, I went through and painted the base colors on the last of the animals, while he put the details on them. Obviously, I finished first, so I found my seat atop the nearly 20 foot high tin roof on the receptionists desk to watch as my dad finished up. He was adding in a pulley with a rope to one of the beams. Even though I knew what it was, I enjoyed putting my pictionary skills to play in my head. - Hey, it was instant entertainment. It's better than going to sleep and falling off the roof. There's another type of reality game we tend to play, but in doing so you're playing something more risky than a trivial game of Pictionary. I'm talking about 'playing God'. I think we 'play God' in more ways than one, without even realizing it.
We 'play God' in how we perceive Him. We try to create this idea of Who He is in our head, and then attempt to play it out, or find it in reality. We have this idea of Who He is, and what He thinks. When, no one can find out the ways of God, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We can't understand them. Our position in the 'game' is revealed when a tragedy hits our life. One who doubts or questions God, and His goodness; one who asks, "Well, if God is good, why did He allow this?"; that is one who has had an active position is the game of "Playing God". They have allowed this personal idea of who He is (or, rather, who He is NOT) to overshadow who He really is. They have placed their idea of Him higher than Who He actually is. We need to truly destroy our view of God and replace it with the knowledge of who He really is. We 'play God' by second-guessing His will. We tend to conjure up this plan in attempt to 'help God out', I suppose, of how things should work out, what He should do, and when He should do it. We question and doubt Him when things don't go the way we planned them out. All the while believing that we are listening to, and following His will. What? No! I know, I am just as guilty of it as anyone. I question when all I need to do is trust. His way is perfect. We tend to 'play God' by attempting to play out our vision of His perfect will in our lives. And, when things don't go as planned, we look up and wonder what happened. Instead, we should be looking inside ourselves and asking the same question. So, His plan doesn't match up to yours? Good! Because, to quote Tangled, "Your dream stinks!". Don't question His way; don't place your will in higher priority that His. We 'play God' by allowing pride in our hearts. When we become prideful, we sin. There is no doubt about it. There's no changing that fact. Any sin we commit, pride can and will be found in the center of it. We esteem ourselves higher than God, allowing pride to steal the throne of our hearts. God resists the proud. He hates pride. Allowing our hearts to become filled with pride is esteeming our will higher than His commands. (Prov. 8.12-13; Prov. 6.16-17; Proverbs 15.5) Lastly, we 'play God' by becoming a god; we 'play God' by taking our life into our own hands. When you place anything above God in your life, it has become a god to you. The god most often found in peoples' lives is self. The god of self will destroy your life. The god of self is wicked. The god of self is a liar; it tells you that what you desire will satisfy you, only to find yourself lacking and empty. Our life is not our own. And when we take life by the reigns and try to stear ourselves, we're headed for a dead end. There is a point when God will allow you to go your own way. He will give you to your own lusts. But, when you win that battle, you loose. Ecclesiastes 2.10 & 11 says, "And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy..... Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." When you seemingly "win" the battle of wills, you actually loose. When you follow your will, 'all is vanity and vexation of the spirit'. And, before you brush this warning off, thinking it would never happen to you.... the Bible say's to the man that thinketh he standeth to take heed lest he fall. Ecc. 2.15, There are no sins specific to bad people. I would rather be able to say as the psalmist did in Ps. 139.13, "thou hast possessed my reins". I want to be able to say, "Thou, God, hast led me all the way... and it was in that perfect way that I followed."
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