God is Too Inefficient to Keep His Job

40 Essays in around 100 Words #13

There’s currently a lot of talk about efficiency, especially in the US. Whole governmental departments committed to it. Has anybody stopped to ask whether efficiency should be our goal? I’m not convinced God is very efficient. He created a world, then destroyed it, to have an old man and his family repopulate it. He then rescued a group from slavery, so that He could lead them around the desert for a generation. If God came to earth, He wasted 30 years just living life. If Jesus got an email asking Him the 5 things He accomplished last week, would He get to keep His job?