Everybody knows Oprah Winfrey. Well in 2008, she did a show regarding her new mentor, New Age author and guru Eckhart Tolle. During the show one of her fans asked her, "How do you reconcile these spiritual teachings with your Christian beliefs?"
Oprah responded, "I reconciled it because I was able to open my mind about the absolute indescribable hugeness of that which we call God. I took God out of the box because I grew up in the Baptist church and there were rules and belief systems and doctrine. And I happened to be sitting in church in my late 20s... and this great minister was preaching about how great God was, and how omniscient, and omnipresent, and God is everything. And then he said, 'And the Lord thy God is a jealous God'. And I was caught up in the rapture of that moment until he said jealous. And something struck me and I was thinking God is all, God is ominipresent, and God's also... jealous? God is jealous of me? Something about about that didn't feel right in my spirit because I believed that God is love... and thats when the search for something more than doctrine started to stir within me..."
She goes on to talk about how that moment launched her spiritual journey to find the real truth. She let this idea that God is jealous to drive her away from her faith. I admit, on most occasions jealousy has a negative connotation. But the jealousy of God is a good thing. I really hope Oprah realizes one day that God isn't jealous OF her, but FOR her. God doesn't want your fame & fortune. He wants you.
God says, "You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image... You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God." God made you for Him. He made you in His image, and He draws you to Himself in order to have fellowship with Him. But what do we do? We wander. We cheat on Him. We chase after other gods and idols. Yet God never stops. He relentlessly pursues us. He can't stand the thought of us pursuing some other worthless idol.
Haha, He's not jealous OF you, Oprah. He's jealous FOR you. It's a good thing. I pray you realize that one day.
2 comments:
That she came to the conclusion that He is jealous of her says as much about what she thinks of herself, as of what she thinks of Him.
i think they should get rid of the Oprah show and have the Stevo Show instead.
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