Edward
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I've always liked sci-fi books and started reading Robert Heinlein books when I was about 7 or 8 years old I think. I'm pretty sure that he was an atheist, but He might have called himself an agnostic. All I know is in several of his books, he was very critical of God. He sounds like an atheist. Especially in Methuselah's Children, Time Enough For Love, and the Notebooks of Lazarus Long. And that Stranger in a Strange Land Book, his character started his own church, and it was not very Christ centered. Not at all in fact. But that is neither here nor there. Sometimes he said some things that were true or sounded like they made sense. and they published two books I think, that were just a collection of quotes from him or one of his characters.
My favorite quote of his has nothing to do with God...or so I thought for a long time. Now I feel differently. It might not have had anything to do with God, in his mind, when he wrote it....but today, I realized that's wrong. It has everything to do with God.
The quote is....:"What a wonderful World it is, that has Girls in it..." (Robert Heinlein)
I like that quote and totally agree with it. It IS NOT good that man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him....(God!)
I thought this through way too much today and see all sorts of connections between man and God, that relates to girls. Everything on this planet is a shadow of things to come in heaven. Most notably, the girls and our marriage covenant with them! It is the most intimate relationship for us here on earth...and a shadow of our covenant and relationship with our Lord, which would be an even bigger better relationship and covenant relationship than with our wives or husbands.
Have you ever been really in love with someone? I mean, can't think of anything else but being with them, loving them so unconditionally that, they could do anything and it would not phase you? In the early days of my marriage, I told her, even if she were to do something wrong, something big and wrong...that I need to know right away. And that right or wrong, I would back her up with my life and even fight if need be....that we could talk later about the mistake, but first things first...That is love.
I think Adam loved Eve this much. Adam was not deceived, Eve was. But I think that Adam ate the forbidden fruit also, out of Love for Eve. So she would not have to be alone. Adam knew some sort of punishment was in order, and the likely thing is that, they would be separated. So I think Adam ate the fruit out of love for Eve.
Later in scripture we're told we must hate our family and life to be worthy of the Lord...That the Lord must come FIRST in our lives...That is big! I have felt that kind of love for a woman, and it would be hard to not hold her above our relationship with the Lord. Spending time with the wife, cuts into a man's prayer time! No wonder Paul said it is not good to seek a wife!
So yeah, Heinlein got that one right. And if you think about it, being loyal and considerate of the wife, and being willing to do anything for her...is exactly how we are instructed to be with our relationship with the Lord. Him first. Even after the Wife! I hovered over my Wife during her pregnancies. I saw both of my sons born. I walked up to 7-11 at 3 Am for cravings snacks for her, and lots more than that too!
And I miss that. I miss being married. (And the Lord knows this!). But luckily, I already decided for myself that, IF I get married again, she will have to be a better woman than my first Wife was, and she was an awesome Wife and Mother, so I haven't met anyone better yet...She would have to be a Proverbs 31 Wife, and if it happens that she is...I have to think that it would be impossible to not fall in love with her...and what will that do to my relationship with the Lord?!
Shadows of things to come. What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it...
You agree? Or am I all wet in this?!
My favorite quote of his has nothing to do with God...or so I thought for a long time. Now I feel differently. It might not have had anything to do with God, in his mind, when he wrote it....but today, I realized that's wrong. It has everything to do with God.
The quote is....:"What a wonderful World it is, that has Girls in it..." (Robert Heinlein)
I like that quote and totally agree with it. It IS NOT good that man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him....(God!)
I thought this through way too much today and see all sorts of connections between man and God, that relates to girls. Everything on this planet is a shadow of things to come in heaven. Most notably, the girls and our marriage covenant with them! It is the most intimate relationship for us here on earth...and a shadow of our covenant and relationship with our Lord, which would be an even bigger better relationship and covenant relationship than with our wives or husbands.
Have you ever been really in love with someone? I mean, can't think of anything else but being with them, loving them so unconditionally that, they could do anything and it would not phase you? In the early days of my marriage, I told her, even if she were to do something wrong, something big and wrong...that I need to know right away. And that right or wrong, I would back her up with my life and even fight if need be....that we could talk later about the mistake, but first things first...That is love.
I think Adam loved Eve this much. Adam was not deceived, Eve was. But I think that Adam ate the forbidden fruit also, out of Love for Eve. So she would not have to be alone. Adam knew some sort of punishment was in order, and the likely thing is that, they would be separated. So I think Adam ate the fruit out of love for Eve.
Later in scripture we're told we must hate our family and life to be worthy of the Lord...That the Lord must come FIRST in our lives...That is big! I have felt that kind of love for a woman, and it would be hard to not hold her above our relationship with the Lord. Spending time with the wife, cuts into a man's prayer time! No wonder Paul said it is not good to seek a wife!
So yeah, Heinlein got that one right. And if you think about it, being loyal and considerate of the wife, and being willing to do anything for her...is exactly how we are instructed to be with our relationship with the Lord. Him first. Even after the Wife! I hovered over my Wife during her pregnancies. I saw both of my sons born. I walked up to 7-11 at 3 Am for cravings snacks for her, and lots more than that too!
And I miss that. I miss being married. (And the Lord knows this!). But luckily, I already decided for myself that, IF I get married again, she will have to be a better woman than my first Wife was, and she was an awesome Wife and Mother, so I haven't met anyone better yet...She would have to be a Proverbs 31 Wife, and if it happens that she is...I have to think that it would be impossible to not fall in love with her...and what will that do to my relationship with the Lord?!
Shadows of things to come. What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it...
You agree? Or am I all wet in this?!
Well in that case you would be correct. :P