Is God My Sugar Daddy?

Isn't it easy to give God glory whenever He pulls through for us; whenever He works his magic and heals our illness and disease and returns us to good health or whenever He allows that awesome job to fall into our lap, providing us with some well deserved rewards? We can shout to the heavens when our God performs a "miracle" in our eyes or allows us to be the recipient of rich blessings.

Image by .imelda via FlickrI don't know about you but I sometimes forget that God doesn't lose any awesomeness whenever what I want doesn't happen or whenever  what I pray for isn't fulfilled.  I find myself questioning sometimes how my God could let me down whenever He knew how desperate I was to have His blessings and rewards change my circumstance. It's then that I realize I sometimes see God not as my spiritual father but rather as my "sugar daddy", the one who will give me just what I desire if I am a good girl. I am disappointed in my observations of how I handled my relationship with God, knowing that He has a perfect plan for my life and just because I don't get what I think I deserve or what I really want doesn't not mean He has failed me but rather that I have failed Him.I fail to realize that disappointments and hardships are not only to be expected but to draw me closer. I want closer on my terms and not His.

I am reminded that He is not an ATM machine dispensing more goodies to me just because I need them, He is not a winning lottery ticket that brings me god luck because I am all deserving and He certainly is not my sugar daddy, ready to give me all good things because I expect them. He is my God. He already has saved me from myself and given me an opportunity to have eternal life;something I can never earn or achieve for myself. He already has forgiven my numerous offenses and my selfish claim to rights that are not mine because of me but because of Him.Image by EG Focus via Flickr

How easy it is to wonder where God is when we cannot understand why prayers go unanswered or desires unfulfilled. My God has done great things for me and meets every need and yet I expect more. How about you? Have you taken the time to reflect on your relationship with God? Are you wanting Him to fill a sugar daddy role instead of realizing how blessed you are to have a heavenly father who cares for us and wants us to live forever with Him in an unspeakable paradise?

How horrible it would be to know someone cared about us because of what we could do for them rather than because of who we were and how we loved them back. I wonder if I have made God feel that way?