What keeps you from serving God?
What keeps you from glorifying Him in a manner you should?
What keeps you from praising Him?
Should anything really keep you from praising God?
If something does, does this mean that we are trusting in what God can do for us rather than trusting in Him? Or is that the point of trusting in God? Is that what people want? Something that can just do stuff for them? Does that even sound like a being worth serving?
If we do not serve God because something does not go the way we think it should go, does that say something more about our character than about God?
What keeps you from glorifying Him in a manner you should?
What keeps you from praising Him?
Should anything really keep you from praising God?
If something does, does this mean that we are trusting in what God can do for us rather than trusting in Him? Or is that the point of trusting in God? Is that what people want? Something that can just do stuff for them? Does that even sound like a being worth serving?
If we do not serve God because something does not go the way we think it should go, does that say something more about our character than about God?
Habakkuk 3:17-19 states, "Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is upon the vines; though the produce of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes me like the feet of a deer, and he makes me tread upon the heights."
So what is our strength?
What is our delight?
What do we hope in?
Is it something other than the Lord?
In Him is our peace.
In Him is our joy.
His love is better.
His love is stronger.
His love makes sense of the world.
His love makes sense out of the "bad" things that happen to us.
In Him is our only hope.
In Him is completeness.
His love is not conditioned upon us loving Him.
His love is the hope for the world.
His love does not make sense to us.
His love is life.
When our hope is placed elsewhere and when we expect God to be a glorified genie, life is incomplete. The problem with this type of belief is that it is not a belief in God at all. It is a belief in ourselves and furthering ourselves. It becomes about us instead of about Him. When we only do something because there is a return for us, we miss out on the purpose of life. We miss out of the purpose of sacrifice. We miss out on the purpose of love. We miss out on the purpose of Jesus.
Christ did not come so that we could be comfortable. He did not come so that we could have our every wish fulfilled. He did not come so that we could tell people to give because He will give back.
He came so that we could have life. He came so that we could find our fulfillment in Him. He came so that we could share that life with others.
