Have you ever observed THE WIZARD OF OZ? That film was delivered in 1939, it actually dazzles watchers of any age as they travel with Dorothy and friends down the Yellow Brick Road to see the incredible and amazing Oz.
At the point when they at last get a gathering with the Wizard, they discover him to be exceptionally cranky, mean and coldblooded. He is a being loaded with fire and fierceness. He affronts them, hollers at them, menaces them and panics them half to death, particularly the Cowardly Lion who in a real sense swoons from dread before Oz.
Do you see it? In that film, Oz is a portrayal of God. The adverse way Oz is portrayed in that underlying experience with Dorothy and the pack is similar way endless individuals get God. The image they have hanging in their psyches about God resembles this:
God: He is mean, irate, and consistently annoyed with me. He thinks I am a weight and a failure. He isn't somebody I can draw near to, share with, or truly have an individual relationship with. I should tread lightly at whatever point I am around God. He is somebody I should fear and avoid.
WHAT A LIE!
God isn't the furious Wizard from Oz. He is the Father in the account of the Prodigal Son. At the point when the noxious, father-disfavoring extravagant at long last gets back in quietude and brokenness, the genuine God doesn't scold him and stack blame and judgment on his head. He doesn't spit on him and cast him out as the Wizard of Oz would definitely do.
The genuine God rushes to him, grasps him, kisses him, excuses him, and gets him with extraordinary euphoria! He returns a robe on his, a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. What's more, on the off chance that that were insufficient, he at that point arranges a gathering for his bringing son back! He murders the stuffed calf (not the lean chicken) in light of the fact that there is to be a BIG CELEBRATION as the Father cheers in the arrival of His child.
DO YOU NEED TO HANG A NEW PICTURE?
Who does God look more prefer to you: the irate Wizard of Oz or the caring Father of the Prodigal? Would it be able to be that one of the main reasons you discover it so difficult to impart your heart and life to God is a result of your negative, twisted perspective on God? Wouldn't you say the time has come to drape the genuine image of God in the corridors of your psyche?
Jesus stated, "And you will know reality, and reality will make you free" (Jn. 8:32). Point of fact, the best truth you would actually learn is reality with regards to the individual of God. As A. W. Tozer once stated, "What comes into our brains when we think about God is the main thing about us."
Recollect God's own words to Moses concerning Himself:
At that point the Lord passed by before him [Moses] and declared, "The LORD, the LORD God, caring and benevolent, slow to outrage, and having large amounts of lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who excuses evildoing, offense and sin; yet He will in no way, shape or form leave the liable unpunished, visiting the injustice of fathers on the kids and on the grandkids to the third and fourth ages. What's more, Moses made scurry to bow low toward the earth and love.
Exodus 34:5-8
Goodness!! What a companion we have in Jesus! Try not to accept the fiend's untruths concerning God. He is the closest companion an individual would actually have, and He needs to be your closest companion and wrap His solid arms of affection, absolution and elegance around you today!