People get to thinking of God as the "Big Boss that is away," that has set out the "design document" that we are to follow, and He's out traveling on a business trip, and so it is our job, us good employees, to "gitterdun," follow the program, do the plan, Stan, do a good job. If we do all this, God gives us a raise, makes us a Supervisor, and someday we're gonna get an extended vacation in a Super Hawaii, maybe a bonus or two thrown our way.
Don't follow the Big Boss. You get FIRED.
But somehow we've missed the point. God is not the Big Boss, but our Beloved. We are not His employees, but His children. He is not gone away, He is HERE, right now, watching, seeing everything. God is not on an extended trip, and so all these sneaky little things we're doing, um, we're getting away with them -- actually, God, our Father, is with us, and knows everything.
