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The facebook (spell check suggestions: casebook, facetious, facecloth) friend posted an entry from a facebook application called G-d wants You to Know. Before we consider some of the implications of this, lets take a look at the message: On this day, G-d wants you to know… that most of your words are unnecessary. All too often you speak simply to fill the space with sound, because you feel too uncomfortable with the silence. But this silence is golden. Only in silence you can hear G-d speak to you. Only in silence can a real prayer, a heart prayer be born. Next time you start chattering, stop and feel into the silence, feel its shape, its texture, and then  say only what really has to be said.
PG agrees with this particular message. The shouting, and emotion mongering, of Jesus worship is repulsive. One must wonder what these shouters are afraid of, when they cannot let their tongues rest. Many confuse noise for truth. ( Prayer is talking to G-d. Meditation is listening to her.)
Even if a particular message is agreeable, sometimes you must question the medium. Where do these facebook applicators get off in claiming to speak for G-d? Even if 645,898 “like” the page. And what were they thinking of when they posted this… APP UPDATE: You can now add a God’s Message tab to your facebook profile that includes your last message from God. Just go to your facebook profile, click on that “+” sign near the top, and search available tabs for “G-d wants you to know”. Enjoy :)
Exodus 20:3-7 3Thou shalt have no other g-ds before me. 4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy G-d am a jealous G-d, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy G-d in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Man has been playing this game for a long time. The first,second, third commandments would seem to forbid labeling the product of man’s labor as “the word of G-d”. And yet, over a billion people make this claim about the Bible. It is a slippery slope…one day you claim the output of a Catholic committee is ” the word of G-d”, then soon a social media computer tells you what “G-d wants you to know”.
Pictures of Confederate soldiers are from The Library of Congress. HT to joemyg-d for the video below.