perspective again

Why do we see God as a performance based God?
It is more than the environment we are in....although our environment played a very significant role in reinforcing this view of God.
Essentially, it is due to the fallen nature of man and the scheme of the devil.
The fallen nature of man thrived in "doing something about it". This nature is an offshoot from sin. Sin is choosing to be (self) in control. Sin (self control) opposed the call to surrender (God's control).
Thus, fallen men like us believe that we can do something to please God, to merit His approval, etc. And we WANT to do something..... to be con't...
The scheme of the devil is essentially to distort the picture of God in our mind. When we have a distorted picture of God, it would inevitably affect our faith in God. On the extreme end, when our picture of God is faulty, we may not even be worshipping the right God!
Thus the need for us to return back to the bible and believe the God of the bible.
Let the bible "dictate" the picture of God in our mind...and not our feelings or experiences.
When the image of God in your mind is BIG, the size of your problem will be SMALL!

Perspective

From the cup illustration, many have left comments for me to think and/or laugh over other versions or perspective.
i am happy that my thoughts have triggered some reflections from you.
This week, i was reminded again about our perspective of God or rather our wrong perspective of God. Many times i found myself reducing God to a very performance based God; whose blessings are dependent on my works. Also i tended to reduce His blessings to what i would "give if i am God" - much less than Who He really would.
I was challenged to re-focus my view of Him. And i suspect i am not the only one in this journey.....

what a response!

I was very surprised by the way my blog went public. 130+ post in less than a week. need to guard my heart lest that becomes my mean of significance in the cyberworld.
i was also amused by many comments that came with my last post. i would certainly like to know what were in some of your minds when you read my post. i am reflecting on some of your comments and would be most glad to share my view in due course.

my thoughts

Often i heard people said that "the cup is half filled vs half empty".
I know that the emphasis is on Potential vs Problem. But i thought about it recently and i felt the question should be "Why is the cup there?" The issue of PURPOSE. We need to ask what is God's purpose in our lives before we could effectively view the potential within us. We exist NOT to fulfil our potential. We exist to worship God with our potential.

My first post

I have entered the cyberworld!
I want to use this to reach out to my friends and spiritual children out there with this tool.