God's not an Emergency Button...
I was checking out Joyce Meyer's latest mag (it is now bi-monthly instead of monthly), when I came across this -
As our Father, God wants us to know Him, to fellowship with Him. He doesn’t want to be the button we push only when we have an emergency. We can’t have the mindset, Well, I better pray now because I am really in trouble. Whether we know it or not, we are in trouble all the time.
- Joyce Meyer
I thought about how Pastor once spoke about how there is no such thing as a free thinker because when a plane is going down, people cry out to God for help.
People tend to believe in being self-sufficient until things really go awry.
As a writer, I feel fed-up whenever I need to rewrite and clear up some other writers' mistakes from earlier drafts. So imagine how it must be like for our Heavenly Daddy when we make choices that cause us to end up in a mess and He has to be the "clean up" crew. Thank God for His being good all the time and for His unconditional love and tender mercies. Phew!
We need to develop a relationship with God and not treat Him like a panic button.
Imagine this - you have a best friend that you hang out with a lot. One day, she gets a boyfriend and she becomes too busy with him. On top of that, she gets a really busy job and so she has no time to chat with you or bond with you. The moment her BF and her has problems though, or her stock investment crashes and she can't tell him but needs to tell someone else, or get a loan even, she looks you up. We help her out and things are fine and dandy again. She goes back to being engrossed with her boyfriend and job etc and leaves you aside till the next rainy day.
How will you feel? I think all of us are guilty of this behaviour at one point or another - be it towards a friend or towards Christ. =p
Things can get overwhelming but let us stop focusing on the natural, but on Christ -
It's not the outlook but the uplook that counts. - Anon (see also Heb 12:2)
God's not an Emergency Button =)
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear... what a privilege to carry, everything to God in prayer.
Exercise your privilege as His son or daughter in Christ today. Develop that relationship with Him constantly, daily.
He is not a 1800-helpline. He is YOUR FRIEND, He is YOUR DADDY.
Treat Him like one... =D
As our Father, God wants us to know Him, to fellowship with Him. He doesn’t want to be the button we push only when we have an emergency. We can’t have the mindset, Well, I better pray now because I am really in trouble. Whether we know it or not, we are in trouble all the time.
- Joyce Meyer
I thought about how Pastor once spoke about how there is no such thing as a free thinker because when a plane is going down, people cry out to God for help.
People tend to believe in being self-sufficient until things really go awry.
As a writer, I feel fed-up whenever I need to rewrite and clear up some other writers' mistakes from earlier drafts. So imagine how it must be like for our Heavenly Daddy when we make choices that cause us to end up in a mess and He has to be the "clean up" crew. Thank God for His being good all the time and for His unconditional love and tender mercies. Phew!
We need to develop a relationship with God and not treat Him like a panic button.
Imagine this - you have a best friend that you hang out with a lot. One day, she gets a boyfriend and she becomes too busy with him. On top of that, she gets a really busy job and so she has no time to chat with you or bond with you. The moment her BF and her has problems though, or her stock investment crashes and she can't tell him but needs to tell someone else, or get a loan even, she looks you up. We help her out and things are fine and dandy again. She goes back to being engrossed with her boyfriend and job etc and leaves you aside till the next rainy day.
How will you feel? I think all of us are guilty of this behaviour at one point or another - be it towards a friend or towards Christ. =p
Things can get overwhelming but let us stop focusing on the natural, but on Christ -
It's not the outlook but the uplook that counts. - Anon (see also Heb 12:2)
God's not an Emergency Button =)
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear... what a privilege to carry, everything to God in prayer.
Exercise your privilege as His son or daughter in Christ today. Develop that relationship with Him constantly, daily.
He is not a 1800-helpline. He is YOUR FRIEND, He is YOUR DADDY.
Treat Him like one... =D
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