Why is it that people assume they are blessed? For instance, you'll hear artists or athletes or whoever claim that God has blessed them with some talent. Why them and not us? Are we to be in awe of their talent that God deemed they were more worthy of it than you or I? Is it some ego thing or does God like to play favorites? Never understod this mentality, any thoughts?
2006-07-31 05:29:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
if there is a god,he hates us all
2006-07-31 05:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by jen 5 · 4⤊ 8⤋
There's no reason for jealousy. You're blessed, too.
If you have a computer and an internet connection I have to assume you have suficient food, shelter, the means to pay your utilities etc etc...
As that is my case, I'm blessed as well.
Although we all have different gifts we're all loved, equally, by God. He doesn't play favorites. Now and then one may need a little more attention than others and I say amen.
Here comes the scripture:
Matthew 18
12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that [sheep], than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
2006-07-31 12:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible tells us in 1Corinthians that the body of Christ is made up of different parts. Just like our bodies have arms, legs, eyes, ears....each person is given certain gifts by God.
Many people never use these gifts to glorify the one who gave them. If an artist says that he has been blessed with his gift, I would assume this person knows that everything we are and have has been given to us by God. Not everyone, however, uses that gift for God's glory. Those who do, and rightly give God the "credit" for what they have and what they can do, just know where that talent came from.
Sure, it seems that some people are more obviously gifted. But God isn't stingy, *smile*...each of us has a gift, sometimes more than one....that we can use to glorify Him. Perhaps you have the gift of encouragement....you can uplift people when they are discouraged. Or the gift of teaching, you can show others about God by explaining His word. Maybe your gift is being a "prayer warrior"....you pray for others and it comes naturally because you love to do it.
The people who are seen the most are not necessarily the ones with the "brightest" gifts, just, perhaps, the most public ones. If I had to choose a gift, it would be one that no one would ever notice, and that would be, the gift of passionately loving others and quietly and unobtrusively serving them, however I could, never drawing attention to myself.
God loves everyone....He gifts everyone. Not everyone ever uncovers those gifts or uses them properly.
2006-07-31 12:58:01 · answer #3 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU ARE BEING BLESSED AT THIS VERY MINUTE. ARE YOU NOW ABLE TO WRITE AND SPEAK, WALK AND BE HEALTHY. ARE YOU STARVING, LIVING IN AN ALLEY? DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN, A HOME. THOSE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT BLESSING IN LIVE. ...BEING LOVED...
YES, SOME HAVE TALENT MORE THAN OTHERS... BUT IS THAT SO IMPORTANT... WE ALL HAVE SOME KIND OF TALENT, BE IT COOKING, DECORATING, WORKING WITH WOOD, TOOLS, MECHANICS...ETC. THOSE ARE BLESSINGS....WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME...THANK GOD, CAUSE IT WOULD BE TERRIBLY BORING.
GOD DOES NOT PLAY FAVORITES... WE CHOSE OUR OWN LIFE PLAN BEFORE BEING REINCARNATED TO THIS LIFE ON EARTH. YOU CHOSE NOT TO BE A GREAT ARTIST THIS TIME AROUND...MAYBE YOU WERE IN A PAST LIFE AND FOUND IT TO BE A PAIN IN THE BUTT AND WANTED PEACE AND QUIET THIS TIME AROUND... THINK ABOUT WHY THIS IS ANNOYING YOU... IS IT YOUR EGO ??
2006-07-31 12:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by ACACIA 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of us have talents specific to ourselves. You should not feel slighted because other people have talents that you do not have. Please do not listen to people who say ugly things about God like " he hates us all". That is a very unkind and uninsightful thing to say. Focus on the good things you do have, or can do, and you will realize that God has blessed you just as much as those who have different physical abilities. It is human beings who put too much focus on these things, to the point that it makes some of us feel like we are deficient if we cannot do the same things that these people can. I assure you, you have many things in your own life that you can point to and say that you have been blessed as well.
2006-07-31 12:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never understood it myself. Sometimes it does sound like an ego thing. And the term "blessed" has been bandied about so much recently that it has no real meaning. Just remember, we are all "blessed" with certain talents and treasures. Mine seems to be getting into trouble.
2006-07-31 12:34:58 · answer #6 · answered by jkrzyzko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blessed comes from my religion - Paganism, the Christians just took this as theirs as they did our holidays.
To say one is Blessed or to Bless someone is to say that they are special, and we are all special, and we all have special talents and they are not the same for everyone.
If you are refering to Christianity's God - he does play favorites - the Jews are his 'choosen' people. All of the Gentials are just praying that somewhere down the line they have some Jew blood from the lost tribes.
Footnote from my mother: The Bible states that God has given everyone the chance for salvation.
She is not a Pagan.
2006-07-31 12:54:31 · answer #7 · answered by Sheila 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God blesses those who are His children everyone is his favorites and He has given each diffrent talents and if are our talents are done in the background and not noticed by people does not mean they are any less blessed than those who have talents that noticed by other people because we should not seek praise from men but from God
2006-07-31 12:37:05 · answer #8 · answered by valgal115 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Blessed?
God? He or She?
Church? Christianity? Jesus? Dying?
What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?
(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - Google Imacculate Conception. What else do you falsely believe? ) Immaculate Deception?
Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .
If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.
Gods do not die? Do they?
If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?
Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!
If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.
If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!
Life after death is like virginity after childbirth.
If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?
If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.
Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.
Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming truly lost.
2006-07-31 12:50:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reaper, YOU are blessed.
WOW you have a computer, you can read and write,your brain seems to work pretty well. I really do not know much about you but from what little I do know I would say that this is a good start in listing YOUR blessings:)
2006-07-31 12:36:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created all of us! We should give the credit for anything that we do to God since He gave the ability to do that. It's kinda like how at graduations and stuff.. you hear them thank their teachers and parents and stuff... because they helped them through it.... well this is just recognizing that God gave the ability!
2006-07-31 12:35:11 · answer #11 · answered by danielrosborne 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋