God Complex part 3
The biggest problem I have with the idea of, "You have a God complex!" is that we use that in a negative connotation. Its like, we somehow think being like God is both something to aspire to... and a bad thing. When the truth of the matter is, we don't have to aspire to being Godlike, because as He is, so are we in this world. And that's not a bad thing at all, its a good thing. Its the best thing. Faith, hope, and love, right? And the greatest is love. Because that's what a true God complex is: Its a love complex. Being obsessed with the only thing that really matters. And, as always, I'm not saying things like having somewhere to live or something to eat aren't important. I'm just saying those aren't things we're supposed to worry about. Because your heavenly Father knows what you need, and has already provided it for you. So we don't need to focus on those things. I'm not saying you don't have to take care of business. Of course you do. Paul wrote, basically, "If you don't work, you don't eat" (see 2 Thessalonians 3:10). But at the same time, Moses went 40 days and 40 nights without eating or drinking, right? And then Jesus did the same thing. Once under the Law, and once redeeming us from the Law. I'm not telling you to try to do that. I'm simply saying there are things that we think are important--that we MAKE important--and then there's the MOST important thing, which is love. Everything flows from love. Everything we do is connected to love. Either we think we don't have it, and we do whatever we can do to try and get it... or we know and believe that we do have it, and we do everything we do in order to share it. But, as 2 Corinthians 5:14 in the NLT says, "Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life." And that part there on the end... that's a very important part. The old is gone, the new has come. The Old Man died on the cross with Jesus, and the New Man rose again to life--and not just any life, but Jesus' abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life--three days later. That's when, and how, we were given all things that pertain to life and godliness. That's when, and how, we were conformed to the image of God's Son. The image that we were originally created in. Remember that verse in Psalms? We are Gods. As He is, so are we in this world. Because He is as He is... in us. And as us. And through us. So having a God complex, and seeing ourselves as we truly are, that only has a negative connotation when we don't understand what it truly means to be God-like. When we think of God as a distant, angry taskmaster who is just waiting for us to mess up so He can get us. When the truth of the matter is... 2,000 years ago on the cross, God GOT us. He drew us all into Himself and planted Himself in us. He gave His life FOR us, and He gave His life TO us. So that we could have it. So that we could experience it as He lives it (again) in us, and through us, and as us. The God complex isn't about us trying to be "like" God. The God complex is about us knowing and believing that we are who God says we are. His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body!