Although this phrase spread popularly in the United States during the 1970s, many suspect it has its roots in stage acting or possibly preaching from the pulpit. I searched but couldn’t find one authoritarian source for this exact phrase. Its meaning is obvious: stop improvising, improvising or playing an impromptu game. Instead, organize your actors, players, or crew and apply their individual talents to achieve the most impressive performance, best effect, or most desirable result.
It is possible that the phrase is probably launched by a theater producer, a director, a manager or a boss with some responsibility, directed at actors, employees, contractors or volunteers. It assumes (probably wrongly) that whoever threw it has of him or her get organized. Unfortunately, the phrase is an accusation and has hurtful connotations for those who receive it. Numerous parallel phrases are associated with this phrase. Some are an affront to God.
Have you cursed God for some misfortune that has happened to you, or have you heard someone else do it? It tends to occur when tragedy takes or harms someone you love or when you face a sudden personal loss, often due to some action you took or didn’t take. Do that once, and you can hardly stop doing it again.
The phrase “Get your act together” complements your curse of God. If you don’t know who God is, what he wants from you, and how he interacts with you every day, what is the basis for criticizing him? Do you go through your life, doing what you want, not bothering to be useful to anyone but yourself, and yet expect everything to work out for you just because you’re great? God is real, and he must be understood to be perceived and worshipped.
Millions of people who pray to God, go to church, and try to do right by others they meet, I won’t either try very hard to learn and apply what God has said and done for humanity throughout the centuries. Without that understanding, you cannot appreciate why God sent his son, Jesus, into our world as a sacrifice.
Web search Matthew 28:18. You have read a quote from Jesus, murdered on the cross, dead for three days, then resurrected, and having one last earthly conversation with his eleven surviving disciples. The disciple Matthew wrote this quote. For those of you who read and understand the Bible, you know that many of Jesus’ words were delivered in the form of parables, stories he told to help people think about how the teaching makes sense to them. But, the words of Jesus in this passage are clear, concise and definitive. From the moment of his resurrection, Jesus allows everything that happens to us to happen.
Is that why some people curse God or Jesus when something bad happens to them? Yes. Even if they are not Christians, they all seem to know who is in charge. But they I may not know that the bad thing that happens to them is not a curse, a punishment or an indifference to their feelings.
The Christian Bible contains recorded guidance from God in the Old Testament, either communicated to all of us by the prophets or recorded directly by Moses, who was in communication with God for over 40 years as he led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt. God gave necessary instructions and behavioral expectations to his chosen people, to mold them into becoming the people who would lead all mankind back to home. Him. The New Testament is fulfilled prophecy (Jesus, the promised Christ), clearer instruction that enhances Old Testament teaching, and details on the rise and growth of the Christian Church (mainly recorded by the Apostle Paul).
Other details in the Christian Bible should discourage you from seeing God and Jesus as anything other than in charge and good for you. Search the web for what happens to your soul when you die. The answer is there, and it’s not what most people assume to be true. In the Old Testament, read how God saved the prophets Enoch and Elijah from the pain of death, deeming them worthy to enter heaven. Jesus did not escape death. He defeated him and ascended to heaven by his own power, as he said he would. All the other dead are asleep. There is no mention of the walking dead or some purgatory that would allow the dead to put to sleep the sins committed while they were alive. It is also not said, but it is implied, that the souls of people who died millions of years ago, now or seconds before the return of Jesus to Earth (the last prophecy) everyone will wake up to be judged at the same moment. In other words, no soul has the understanding of being dead for any period of time.
“Get your act together” can mean that you have to figure this out, believe it, and practice it while you’re still alive. Jesus was sent to teach the living and to offer his life as atonement for your sin. End of the game, the day you die. Search the web for Matthew 7:23, which is a warning to each of us about what Jesus will say to you when your soul stands up with everyone else’s soul on judgment day, if you turn your back on God and you decide not to accept. the sacrifice that Hey made for you. Act together, for your own good and that of your family.
