Y'all, please read this, its just a short sermon that I think everyone needs to hear nowadays.
The science fiction genera is filled with stories of alien races that are controlled by a single over mind that uses its psychic power to control its population. Star Trek has the Borg. The Borg assimilate other races, and control them using a hive mind. The Christian bible describes God’s spirit as living within the believer, that the Christians body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit. Christians are influenced in a special way by God. But unlike the Borg, Christ does not control Christians, He does not take over their mind or will, although he fills them. The job of the Holy Spirit is to instruct Christian, to teach, and correct them, protect them from harm, but he never controls them.
We only have a limited time on this earth, and before we die we must receive God’s Spirit. Our body will one day die, but if God dwells in us he will give life to us, we will be drawn away from hell beneath.
Rom 8:11-14 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
God is not like the Borg, he will not force you to do anything, but he does expect us to be open to his leading in life. If we have sin in our life, he wants to gently change us. He won’t push us and shove us around, but using love he will draw us into a life that is profitable. What honors God, not a broken life, full of suffering, but a life that is prospering. Every person, Christian or non Christian will experience some times of suffering, but God’s ultimate plan for us is to make our lives shine.