Obama, Mother's Day and pleasing God.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviewed Obama after Time Maganize concluded that he was the to be the Democratic nominee for the November Presidential elections. Towards the end of the interview, Wolf, because the interview was on the Mother's day weekend, asked Obama what his mother would have thought about him if she had been alive to see him now.
Obama gave his flashing smile and then went on to what kind of a person his mother was as to how hard working and generous she was and so on and so forth with his usual eloquence. Then came his killer line "if she were alive today she would tell me, Son dont allow any of this to go to your head'". Then he talked about how his wife Mitchelle was the mother of his life now, being honest with him, about his short comings and taking care of his two daughters.
He then makes an important point about his mother. He says that she was someone he would always to to for any counsel he needed. He says that even now when he is in a dilema, that he would ask himself 'what would mom do here?', 'if I were to do this, would she approve of it, would it please her (that I am her son)'.
As Christians who love God, we need to give God the same place that Obama gives his mom. Whenever we do anything with our 'hands', we need to ask oursleves, 'Does God approve of this?' 'Am I pleasing God or am I provoking Him?'
The Lord says in Jer 25:6,7 that we should not provoke him to anger by the works of our hands.
When Obama spoke of how his mom was still very much a part of his live even years after her departure from his life, I couldn't help seeing the parallel in Christian living. We too need to live life so that God is a part of the decision making process of our life, we need to live with our face to Him.
Obama gave his flashing smile and then went on to what kind of a person his mother was as to how hard working and generous she was and so on and so forth with his usual eloquence. Then came his killer line "if she were alive today she would tell me, Son dont allow any of this to go to your head'". Then he talked about how his wife Mitchelle was the mother of his life now, being honest with him, about his short comings and taking care of his two daughters.
He then makes an important point about his mother. He says that she was someone he would always to to for any counsel he needed. He says that even now when he is in a dilema, that he would ask himself 'what would mom do here?', 'if I were to do this, would she approve of it, would it please her (that I am her son)'.
As Christians who love God, we need to give God the same place that Obama gives his mom. Whenever we do anything with our 'hands', we need to ask oursleves, 'Does God approve of this?' 'Am I pleasing God or am I provoking Him?'
The Lord says in Jer 25:6,7 that we should not provoke him to anger by the works of our hands.
When Obama spoke of how his mom was still very much a part of his live even years after her departure from his life, I couldn't help seeing the parallel in Christian living. We too need to live life so that God is a part of the decision making process of our life, we need to live with our face to Him.