Because I Said So

     How many times have we tried to rationalize with a child concerning what is right or wrong, or what they must or must not do?   Explanation after explanation, example after example, and even, threat after threat, many times, no matter what we say, it is to no avail.   The stubborn, often out of control, child is convinced he/she knows far more, and far better, than the older, out of fashion superior in control.   In exasperation, the being of authority can only shout, “Because I said so”!!!   (Are you laughing yet, or maybe even crying???)

     What if the child defying what is right is not our earthly offspring but us, the children of God?   What if it is not us, but God, who stands as parent trying to grow, or even save, the wayward child?  

     God’s Bible is the loving words of rationale for us to listen and heed, but do we?   When the Word of God does not penetrate and be followed, God’s last command, like ours, stands firmly and mightily cries back “Because I Said So”.

     If I, and you, accepted God in this parent vision, we might, also, better visualize and follow the will and way to which God calls, and commands, us.   Of equal insight, we might additionally see life’s storms are best calmed, or navigated around, if we listen to our Father God’s warning and directions.  

     God’s children were not created to force the ultimatum, “Because I said so”; but, rest assured, these words are in God’s vocabulary.   Though not God’s desired verbiage, when no other recourse remains, God, like us, loves His children too deeply to back down from demanding, and enforcing, His authority behind “Because I said so”.  

     Look at the world around, and unfortunately inside, us.   If we continue in defiance of all God has commanded us through His Bible words, we just might be momentarily facing His final ultimatum, BECAUSE I SAID SO.”