(2.5 min read) “It is indeed my God given right”. Wouldn’t you agree that this is our American way! We live in a free country, thank You God, where we have rights and we have the God given right to exercise such rights. American as apple pie, correct?

Who is exercising that right?

Who did God give that right to?

Who will benefit from exercising that right?

Who is angry if the right is, or perceived as, not exercised?

The answer to all these questions of course is ME.

You’ve heard it said and it sounds arduous, but we have to ask it again; is “it is indeed my God given right” a representation of the Biblical way or the American way?

“Why are you pitting these two as adversaries Reda? Aren’t they one and the same!?”

Well, if we agree that ‘My God Given Rights’ are all about ME!

Then the question that begs itself to be asked is; “Is the Bible teaching me how to care, protect, promote, worry, uphold, defend, support ME!?” Or is the Bible continually asking, even begging, me to care, protect, promote, worry, uphold, defend, support OTHERS!?”

“Well Reda, you said it yourself; it is through me fighting for my rights and preserving my rights that I get to care, protect, promote, worry, uphold, defend, support OTHERS!?”

Again, I will point out the four questions at the top and who’s emphasis ‘My Rights’ is on??

Is the path that God is trying attempting tirelessly teaching me through the Bible is to seek routes to;

Seek my rights first as they will ultimately be best for the grander purpose?

Or

Personally care, protect, promote, worry, uphold, defend, support OTHERS!? Without the worry fear concern apprehension of the grander purpose?

Do you foresee the Lord God saying; “you take care of the now and I’ll take care of the then?”

I know I know this sounds so PASSIVE and SUBMISSIVE and these two words are sooooo Un-American!!

Are you saying Reda that in America I should have no rights!?

On the contrary, I am saying, let me be in the now. Protect, in the now, OTHERS rights and not MY rights! In the now, help the abused harmed ill-treated impaired battered struggling disadvantaged to have THEIR rights to a restored life, instead of defending MY rights.

Read the above paragraph once again. On the contrary, …………….. instead of defending MY rights.

Doesn’t that sound more like what Jesus would say!? Or what Jesus would ask me to do!?

In human history much has been done with the “Grander Purpose” as the driving motive.

In every step I take I need to prayerfully ask myself; “Is me building for the grander purpose, Your will Lord for my life? Or do You Lord want me to shed away all my worries and my fears about tomorrow, and just work with You in the now?” And this is indeed my prayer for today. Amen