YES MASTER

Greetings O Ye Rock Em, Sock Em Ruminators. I want each of you to repeat after me...YES MASTER. Now...say it again...but say it in a monotone, submissive voice...YESSS MASTER. Now...say it again after I give you a command. Go to your banks...withdraw a $100.00bill...place it in an envelope.. address it to me...put a stamp on the envelope...and mail it to me now.
Your response: YESSSS MASTER.

The good news is that we are not hyp-mo-tized...or drug induced Zombies...or programmed ROBOTS. We have been created (if you subscribe to that notion) with what is known as VOLITION. Aaaaaaaaah Sweet Volition. NO...I did not say Sweet Videlia ..but Sweet Volition. Volition is merely...the concept of FREE WILL. To be...or not to be that is the question. We have talked many times about our abilities to CHOOSE...life/death...blessing/curse...obey/disobey...
yes/no.

I love science fiction stories...and movies. Robots are central characters in the stories and moves...from CP3O, R2D2, Robbie the Robot(in the classic Sci-Fi movie Forbidden Planet)...and of course Robbie the Robot refurbished in the T.V. show...LOST IN SPACE, etc. Issac Asimov introduced robots with his science fiction short stories. The word ROBOTICS was 1st used in Asimov's 1949 story LIAR!. In 1950 he published 9 short stories that were connective by a narrative device of a story teller. Part of those short stories was one called I, ROBOT...which was seen on the T.V. show THE OUTER LIMITS...and later in the movie I, ROBOT with Will Smith in 2004. Asimov introduced what is known as the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS (that go awry when the created robots...develop human emotions and volition. DANGER...DANGER WILL ROBISON (Lost in Space reference).

THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS

1. A robot MAY NOT INJURE a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot MUST OBEY ORDERS given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the first law.

3. A robot MUST PROTECT its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the 1st or 2nd law.

Good laws to live by...if you are a ROBOT. Instead of I, ROBOT...we are I, HUMAN.

Man...Wo-man...Man/Woman-kind...were CREATED with the capacity to worship, fellowship, love, commune...and CHOOSE.

In the book of Genesis (beginnings)...we see an overview of creation by the Creator...with Genesis 1:1-25 God SPEAKING into existence various things from light to animals...with his assertion that what He had CREATED was GOOD. Then in verse 26 we see God saying..."Let US make man in OUR image according to OUR likeness...." He goes on to say, "...and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over ALL the earth, and over every CREEPING THING (including creepy serpents) that CREEPS (authority over the creeps). Verse 27 continues with a description of the creation process..."And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him: male and female He created THEM.

NOTE: That this authority for the created beings was given to MALE and FEMALE.

Verse 28 continues..."And God BLESSED them (male and female) and God said to THEM (male and female), be fruitful and multiply (and God was not talking about mathematics)...and fill the earth (with the cause and effect of the multiplication process)...and subdue it (utilize the delegated authority)...and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Verse 29-30 continues on with what God had given man and woman...male and female. In the end...in verse 31..."And God saw all that He had made...and behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD..."

While Genesis 1:1-31 gives a broadbrush overview of creation in a 7 day thumbnail sketch...Genesis 2:7-25 zeros into the specifics of the creation of man/woman, male/female, husband/wife.

In Genesis 2:7...we see the first case of CPR...jumpstarting a lump of clay..."Then the Lord God formed man of DUST...from the ground...and BREATHED into his nostrils...THE BREATH OF LIFE...and man BECAME (cause and effect) a LIVING BEING/SOUL." Later on we see the first surgery performed with anesthesia as God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept...and then He took one of his ribs (pre Famous Daves) and closed up the flesh at that place. And the Lord God FASHIONED (1st fashion show) into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man and brought her to the man. (Genesis 2:21-22)

NOTE: Remember that woman was not an after thought. She was in the original plan of creation...in the image of God...and was to have authority and dominion over earth as was man.

Then the union of man (Ish) and wo-man (Isshah)...became bone of my nones and flesh of may flesh...and for this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his WIFE and they shall become ONE FLESH. (Genesis 2:23)

Well Mr. Ruminator...what does all this mean? Well...Mr. and Mrs. and Miss and Ms Ruminators and Ruminettes...it's like Pastor Bruce Coble says..."we are just lumps of clay filled with the glory of God."

We are NOT robots. We have a divine link with the CREATOR of the universe. What gives value to a container...is not the container...it is what is IN the container that gives it value.

We are lumps of clay...with the breath of the creator of the universe...that was set into motion in the Garden...and continues to breath... until he stops it.

Part of the VOLITIONAL PROCESS that we have...is found in the song HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the POTTER...I am the CLAY
Mold me and make me...after Thy will
While I am waiting...Yielded and still

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way
SEARCH me and TRY me...MASTER today!
Whiter than snow, Lord...wash me just now
As in Thy presence Humbly I bow

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary...Help me , I pray
Power all power...surely is Thine
Touch me and heal me...Saviour divine

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o'er my being absolute sway!
Fill with thy Spirit...surely is Thine
Till all shall see
Christ only, always...LIVING IN ME!

This song penned by Adelaide Pollard and George Stebbins...with a copyright in 1907...still rings true to me in 2008.

YES MASTER....I choose to obey and yield to your desires.

Love and non-robotic kisses
Rodney "I, RODNEY" Boyd