I think I'm guilty of treating God like Santa Claus at times. This particularly happens when I'm fervently praying for something.
"I'd better be good (or pray, or read the Bible, or [insert appropriate 'good' action here], or God is not going to answer my prayer," I catch myself saying sometimes.
But that's really not that way God works. Whatever happens to us is really not a direct result of whether we've been naughty or nice. There is no obvious action = consequence thing here.
All we have to do is have faith and trust that God will watch out for us. And that no matter what happens (including unfavourable answers to prayer), it will all work out in the end.
Of course, that does not mean we shouldn't spend time reading the Bible or talking to God. We simply shouldn't do it just because we want to get into God's "good books" so that he'll answer our prayer requests favourably.
Chants to self, "God is not Santa Claus. God is not Santa Claus."
1 comment:
perhaps he's more like the tooth fairy, we have to lose something first before we can gain anything ;-)
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