Live Well and Prosper

Watching "Clash of the Titans" gave me a bit of humour in my wife's very fluent, yet not so perfect English. Thinking she was quoting the movie she exclaimed in an ominous voice 'Release the Cracker' and had a perplexed look when I just about fell over laughing. I had mental images of Harriet Beecher Stowe scripting "Clash of the Titans" for the Deep South.

On a more serious note, one of the things I noticed about the movie was how backwards it was to my personal theology. The gods gained their power from the worship of their adherents. I get this mental image of a series of generators distributing their energy to the gods. The more energy a god receives, the more powerful the god becomes. The gods in turn spend time sabotaging each other, forming alliances and manipulating the "energy providers".

This type of theology is a bit insidious. It's so easy for us to think that the worship we direct for God is for His benefit. We have encouragements all through the scriptures to worship God in many different forms, but God 'needs' this worship about as much as the sun needs a solar cell.

My opinion is that we put our energy into directing our worship to God much the way a solar cell when more oriented to the sun produces more energy. God's instruction for us to worship Him is not for His benefit, but for ours. Like a sun flower, orient your solar cell to the Son then live well and prosper.