Uh-Uh, Don’t Do That!

You ever get the feeling that someone is watching you or following your every move? Isn’t it kind of creepy to suspect that someone is paying you unwanted attention? At times like these, you can hear the scary music in the background getting progressively louder. The eerie music is telling you to not go in that dark room or open that door or talk to that stranger.

Unfortunately, that nervous feeling is how many of us Christian singles feel about God. We are reluctant to join the singles ministry or read that book on singleness or attend that singles conference or visit that singleness blog because of what we fear we will have to give up. Who among us wants to hear another “Uh-Uh, Don’t do that!?”. Thus we only half-heartedly listen to the sermon or study the bible or fellowship with other Christian singles because we don’t want to stop the “stuff” we are doing that we know we have no business doing.

Has it come to this? Viewing God as that being that is watching or following us or paying unwanted attention to us? Somehow, we have created a misguided world where God is the stern taskmaster keeping us from having fun. Whenever we think of Him, that eerie music starts to play in the background telling us to stop wanting to find true love or don’t go for that job promotion or don’t open your heart to new friendships or don’t even think about opening up that new business. In a morbid and sad way God is the head of our lives only because we say He is the reason why we haven’t done those things we dreamed of doing.

Snap! Snap! Snap! (That’s me snapping my fingers trying to wake you up!!) I don’t know who fed you all of that “stuff”, but God is not an “Uh-Uh” God. Starting with the Garden of Eden, He only put one tree on the forbidden list (two if you count the tree of life.) So, Adam still had the apple, the pomegranate, the cherry and whatever other trees that existed then. Like Adam, God has given us so much freedom to enjoy the good things in life, that it is kind of foolish to focus on those things that we THINK He is trying to keep us away from.

In our singleness, we should recognize that God says “Yes” many more times than He says “No”. So, stop feeling all creepy and stuff when you think of Him. Trust me, He is not as bad as you think He is. In fact, God is great and He is good. The music that accompanies His works is one of joy and peace, not fear. God is not a villain in our bad movies. Rather, He is the Hero, the Knight in shining armor and the One who rides in and saves the day. Wake up and recognize the true God and concerning that bad habit of making Him out to be the bad guy; “Uh-Uh, Don’t Do That!”