Oprah is Mistaken

I found a wonderful lesson in this sitcom, Reba, last night. If you know anything about the show, or if you don't, let me fill you in. Reba had to get a job recently to sustain her 3 children, son-in-law, and 1 grandchild who all live in her house. She has been a stay at home mom for a very long time and is divorced. Her ex-husband, Brock, lives next door with his new wife, Barbara Jean. Reba hates Barbara Jean, but for some reason, Barbara Jean loves Reba and Brock and his new wife are just as much in Reba's life as when she was married to Brock. When Reba couldn't find a job because of her lack of experience, she got Brock to let her work at his dental office as a secretary. Barbara Jean is also a secretary and Reba planned to quit but then Brock explained that if Reba learned from Barbara Jean, Barbara Jean would leave because she would have found a replacement. Once this occurs, Reba's babysitter 'gets a bad case of old' and Barbara Jean steps in to become the very cheerful new babysitter of Reba's 2 youngest children, Jake and Kyra. Reba finds this more and more appealing as Barbara Jean cooks delicious dinners, does dishes, laundry, and acts basically like a wife for Reba's family. As Reba becomes more and more attached to Barbara Jean, Jake calls her mommy instead of Reba and she decides that she no longer wants Barbara Jean to babysit. This leads to a lot of trouble for Reba as she cannot find another babysitter.

This made me think about why she would go to such lengths, even putting her job in jeopardy just so that Barbara Jean would stop babysitting Jake and Kyra.

This morning, Granny showed me this video that was on the Oprah show, talking about her religion and how she ended up looking for a new religion. She was in church and the preacher was talking about how great God is and then when he said "Thy God is a jealous God," Oprah apparently came to believe that that meant that God is jealous of US. That he is insecure in his Godliness and wants to be us. She is mistaken!! So, I found that the situation on Reba could be applied to our God.

Like Reba, our God is jealous when we put other things before Him. A mother becomes very jealous whenever their child calls someone else mommy. She worked hard for 9 months carrying, feeding, and being the life line of that child. When the child was born, she fed it, clothed it, changed it's diaper. She deserves the title, Mommy. She deserves to be treated with respect and given attention as the Mother, not some other person who did not do all that!

God is like that. God meticulously put us together. He hand-crafted each of us individually, spent special time on each of us. I was made totally different than anyone else EVER. God did that. Doesn't he deserve the respect and attention that entails?! If I were to, like Oprah, put myself in the position of my Savior. Heaven is my consciousness. I am the reason I become successful. I am the way to be saved from hell. I am the reason I am who I am.

If you had created something and knew YOU were the reason for the way they are, you were the creator, and then they decided that you had not created them. They created themselves. You don't exist. Wouldn't you be mad? Wouldn't you be jealous?! I mean, YOU KNOW YOU MADE THEM!! YOU KNOW THEY EXIST BECAUSE OF YOU!! But they refuse to believe that. I'd be jealous of whatever they decided had created them, too. That is how God is jealous.