How Do You Treat God?
4 05 2008
I went to the Redbox at McDonald’s this evening to return “I Am Legend.” Good movie. I had to wait for a couple minutes because someone else was using the machine trying to rent “27 Dresses.” The machine wouldn’t accept his card.
Anyway, while I was waiting I noticed a young mother who was dining there with her child. The reason I noticed her is because her child was throwing a fit. The kid was sitting in a high chair and couldn’t have been more than a year old, but was making enough noise for 5 or 6 kids. I turned around and looked, and this mother was sitting there with a smile on her face, holding a huge ice cream cone, saying, “No, I need to hold it. No, I need to hold it.” It was obvious that she was sharing her ice cream, but the kid was wanting to hold the cone and eat it all himself. How ungrateful. How immature. But not really surprising.
We expect that kind of behavior from babies, don’t we? I thought it was cool that this young mother was being patient and kind and cool under pressure. I give her props.
But how often do we act like that child towards God? You know what I’m talking about. God gives us a gift, but we focus on what he hasn’t given us. He grants us goodness, but we want so much more and we want it right now, so we view his timing as a lack of compassion.
Do you act like a whining, blabbering, snotty-nosed, fit-throwing kid towards God sometimes? I know I do.
I connced out of a lot of money a few years back. I freaked out and concentrated on what I had lost instead of what I already had.
And so I lost everything else that I had. And there you go….
Now I’m assuming and hoping that all of that bad programming works just as well in reverse.
It should!
(I was conned )…sorry… my keyboard is sticking.
You think it would work in reverse. I’ve come to find out that you never know until after the fact, and it is usually in a way that you don’t expect. The saying “hindsight is 20/20″ is really true.