THE BLUEPRINT GOD

The blueprint God is the God that people believe has our lives planned out and who intervenes in answer to prayer.  This God gets blamed when bad things happen and He does not stop it.  People speak for God and tell others things like "God has His reasons" and "God is in control" and "God snatches children from us" and "God is punishing us for our sin" and "God is trying to teach us something".

Life is full of unexplained suffering and accidental  happenings that are beyond our control.  We have no words that can ease the pain that many experience, especially at  death of a child or a parent that dies early in life. 

People search for divine direction in things like Tarot cards or fortune telling and pull verses out of scripture to prove that they are right.  Down through the ages humans have searched and hunted and longed for the sacred; a feeling of awe and wonder that empowers the weak to become strong and the strong to become compassionate.

God revealed His love for us at the birth and death of His son.  God wants to make our lives better through His word of healing and compassion; but also He tells us we are responsible to help one another, to share our burdens and to bring hope to the hopeless.

There is a man at the Nursing Home who is completely absolutely negative and I am not surprised he does not believe in God.  He makes no effort to reach out to others but sits in his misery and his heart hardens.
He has had many great adventures flying planes but that means nothing to him now.  His daughter at one time lived on the streets and has had four children who have had no father.  Now their lives are a mess.

He admits he was an absent father and husband and that is why he has divorced three wives.  He blames them for robbing him of all his money and there is no love in him.  I am committed to visit him and listen to his misery and it is hard not to have some answer or words to cheer him up.  Maybe with time I will.

God is the scours of all power and His gift to us has been the freedom of choice.  This is the wisdom of the story about Adam and Eve that they were given choices.  They could trust God or listen to the lies that lie behind all temptation.