Stepford Childen

I write mostly about mankind's disobedience because that's what we do best! We have perfected the art of gratification and self-aggrandisement. However, God, for some reason, still loves us! Of that love do I seldom write, but it's that love which provides hope for mankind, for although we're sinners of the worst kind, God loves us in the worst way! He died for us!

Why does God love us so? He made us, he wants us to succeed, he wants us to be immortal and he desires to have love from his creation. Because we failed in loving him by honoring his will for us, we are now mere mortals and fail him, and ourselves, in every conceivable way. We live with ourselves at our own peril for we are our own worst enemies.

I marvel at the thought of what it would be like to have "Stepford Women". These thoughts are derived from the movie Stepford Wives. These women were altered to be perfect subservient women to the needs and wants of their husbands. They served with a smile and men were patronized with perfect obedience. Truly this is the ultimate woman!

In reality think how bland it would be if our wives catered to us only because they were programmed to be that way. Think on the consequences of perfect obedience and reverence. However, while you're thinking consider that the Stepford wives were not programmed to love, but only to strictly obey! There would be little satisfaction of having automatons for wives!

Christians (the Church)are symbolically God's wives. Jesus is the Bridegroom so to speak. John the Baptist, denying that he is the one to honor, said this about Jesus:

John 3:29 "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled."

It's clear that when we repent and are saved, we are new creatures in Jesus! This is being "born-again" and is the "new birth". However, symbolically speaking, when we are born-again we enter into a marriage! We become the bride of Jesus and our relationship is not only Father to child, but also Groom to bride. Even us Christian men are brides to The Groom, and as such Jesus desires not  Stepford wives. He wants the real deal.

Stepford wives are always obedient since they are programmed to be that way. Good wives are obedient because they desire to show love and honor to their husbands! God could have programmed us all to love and honor him, but it is his desire that we love and honor because we choose to love and honor. He knew in advance that his children would fail him, but that those who do love him, it's a sincere unprogrammed love!

Those who fail to voluntarily love God seem to be Stepford children. Those are the majority who fail to love God, but blindly obey their own master. This master has a controller functioning from afar. It beams out offers of pleasure, power and wealth to automatons whose receiver sub-consciously welcomes it and turns those remote signals into actions. The Stepford child then serves! The master controller is Satan. His transmission is temptation. Sinners are the receiver and sin is the automation. As such, sinners serve the devil, but believe they are acting on their own. They can't see the controller nor detect his signal, so in their naivety they believe they are being "true to self"!

Automatons do nothing by themselves. Every move his programmed. They aren't aware that they're not the master of their own domain, but they serve the one who controls. The power of the controller lies in the signal it employs. Deceit is the strength of the signal and it is fueled by promises of delight. Sinners are automatons much as Pavlovian dogs who have conditional reflexes. When a bell was rang and food proffered, the dog would salivate. With repeated conditioning the dog would salivate when only the bell rang without the reward of food. The dog responded to pleasure even when no pleasure was forthcoming! That's the way of Stepford children. That's the way of those obedient to Satan! Satan promises much, but fulfills nothing!

Why then does God love us? He does, you know?

Romans 5:8"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Here we have it! Sinners walk around as Stepford children, being automatons controlled by their master. They do his every wish and his wish is that God be undermined. Consequently, Satan's automatons perform sin, doing all those things against God's will. To obey Satan is to disobey God, and to disobey God is to obey Satan!  While we're yet servants of Satan, God  loves us! He sees potential! Those who are relieved of their Stepford condition the most, seem to love him the most!

 Luke 7:47 "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her (woman who washed Jesus' feet) sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little."

It seems that the forgiven person's love is in direct proportion to what they're forgiven! The best Stepford child does all the bidding to the one who controls. Their servant-like (conditioned) responses amount to programmed slavery.

John 8:34 "Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin."

Stepford children are slaves to their master who controls their every move and thought! Sinners merely blindly follow the signals of temptation which their antennae anxiously accept. Yes, they have a master controller. He is their father and this verse tells how they follow their master:

John 8:44 "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."

This is a description of the sinner; the Stepford child. The sinner is that automaton who does the "lusts of your father" and that "father is the devil"! What are the lusts which the sinner follows: disobedience, irreverence, lasciviousness, homosexuality, fornication or any other things which demeans the rule of God's law! Even one "lust", if followed, in God's eyes is like following them all. So you only have one problem area with sin? Then as a Stepford child, you're merely malfunctioning! Your father has programmed you to do them all, and with a little tinkering with your sub-routine, you soon will be!

Satan prefers Stepford children who follow blindly without question! God, however, prefers that what you do is willingly, and based on the power of truth, not the reception of deceit! God tells you how he controls: it's by persuasion and love:

2 Peter 1:10 "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

Our "calling" is God  speaking with us through his Spirit. We are all elected to reside in "the everlasting kingdom" (heaven), but as such, most refuse to serve! Unlike Satan, God doesn't deceive and control, he merely offers a free gift. The person elected can either accept or reject that gift:

Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

As you can see from this verse "eternal life" is a "gift of God" which we can either accept or reject. Rejection is our choice to remain "controlled", a slave to Satan; a Stepford child. As such at some point in time Satan's needs will have been met and he repays you with death. Satan sets the controller on "die" and that you do, because "the wages of sin is death"! Just as Rev. Jim Jones followers drank the Kool-Aid unto death, by rejecting God's gift, you have unknowingly been outwitted. You, as did the legions of evil spirits in the Bible, jumped over the cliff and joined your father the devil in death!

Why does God love us? It's because God is love! That's his inherent nature. He's just that way because he IS:

Psalm 103:8 "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy."

God loves us as we are with no expectations other than after we are his, that we love him back. He expects that, but oftentimes he doesn't get it from his children. How do I know that? Because Christians don't obey God and that's the only way we have to show our love!

Someday when the lord who sinners serve has his signal interrupted by divine protection, people can quit being Stepford children and become alive! Rather than blindly obeying killer instructions, children of God who obey out of love, will have hope which fuels their destiny.

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (hope in the ESV)."

Satan controls. God offers hope! Satan enslaves. Hope frees! The devil delights in hate. God rejoices in love. Satan provides death. God offers eternal life. Stepford child, who would you rather serve? Which master is in your best interest? Who loves you?