Does God Owe You?
Last night, I heard a bit of a sermon by the smiling pastor (aka Joel Osteen). I like to listen to him every now and then just to make sure it’s okay for me to think he’s crazy. Indeed it is.
He talked about how God wants to pay you back for the injustices you’ve faced (almost as if God was the cause of the injustice). What makes me sick is that he’s basically making it out that God owes you. He sort of makes it out that God blesses us because he wants to pay us back for the bad things we’ve faced.
To me, that’s ridiculous. God doesn’t owe us any thing and doesn’t need to pay us back for any thing. God’s blessings aren’t some kind of payment. They are undeserved.
Of course, millions love Osteen because he says that if you have faith, you will prosper (in health, wealth, success, etc). God does bless us when we are faithful…but it’s not some kind of payment. Yeah, you may have faced some injustices in life, but to take a “God, this sucked…you owe me” attitude is just wrong.
if you keep on like this, your head will eventually explode
Comment by david — July 8, 2007 @ 8:42 pm