I enjoy watching Survivor and analysing the behaviour of the winners and losers. Hearing the reasons why people think they've been voted out is very enlightening. Bossy ones think they are misunderstood and targeted. Lazy ones think they did their best. There's almost no-one who has a realistic or healthy view of their own achievements or efforts.
This week in Survivor China, Leslie, a Christian radio host was voted off. Why? According to her, it was God's will. She just came to love others for Christ. It was God who got her on, and it was God who took her out.
True enough, in a broad view.
The short-term, more human view, is that she was voted off because she was truly the most annoying person in the tribe. She was cloying, overly sweet, a little bit patronising, too talkative and extremely naive in the way she played the game.
I hate how Christians put all the blame on God for what happens to them, when if they just took a good look at themselves, they could see a whole lot of problems which cause their circumstances.
God might have put her on, but it was more likely the producers who could recognise an annoying team member when they saw one. And God might have taken her off, but it was her own behaviour to her tribemates which riled them enough to write her name down.
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How very true, Cecily! All too often I hear people abdicating the responsibility for their own choices and attributing the consequences of their own actions and attitudes onto God.
What must he think of us?! Here he gave us the gift of free will, and then we want to hide behind "God planned it this way" in order to avoid the implications of free will.
Seems logical to me that he gave us that gift of free will in order for us to learn how to make wise choices, and to learn from our mistakes. After all, I've heard that experience is quite often the best teacher, lol.
And, oh boy, do I have the experience to prove it! *wink*
Nice to have a comment Beth. Thanks for dropping by. I'll go and check out your blog.
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