God is okay for supplying material needs and physical health, but when it comes to spiritual things, let’s keep it on the entertaining side of things. And woe if He dares to let us down. We’ll be quick to change camps.
Woe if He allows anything bad happen to us, or even allows someone we love to die – the epitome of all evils!
We would like God to do things differently than they actually happen: kill all the bad people, and let all the good people live. Make us rich and healthy and the other ones poor and sick.
Then we can believe. Then we’ll attend church and sing “How great Thou art!” – No wonder. It’s easy then, isn’t it?
But what if He in fact knows best, after all, what’s good for us, and what isn’t?
What if He’s really the One calling the shots, and won’t be blackmailed, either, by our, “If You’re good to me, I’ll believe in You, and if You’re not, I won’t” type of faith?
What if the God Who wouldn’t do things according to our plans has a few of His own?
Then why not grant Him the same type of freedom that He grants us?
But no, the minute His ideas dare to deviate from ours, we scientifically declare that He doesn’t exist, or no, that He’s not the Messiah, not the right kind, not what we expected, no way, crucify that one!
Thank God He’s not one of us! I think we’d be in really rotten shape then!

