I heard something the other day that has really messed me up. It went like this “Do I love and serve God simply because He’s God or do I do it because of what He can do for me? If it’s the last one, then I married Him for His money.”
Does that strike you at all? It seems to me that the Western church has turned God into nothing more than a genie in a lamp. If we say the right magic words He’ll give us what we want. Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the simple fact that He’s God and we’re not. Period. If we keep that in mind it’s easy to keep all the stuff in our lives AND churches in the right perspective. But the minute God becomes a genie, we’re toast. There are some things that God does that we’ll never understand and our arrogance really shows when we think we have a right to.
So did you marry God for his money? Just something to think about.
