But, What If ...

But, what if God really does work this way?  You know - name it and claim it, you have not because you ask not, etc ...

So you believe that God created you, in order to shower  you with materialistic wealth, physical blessings beyond your imagination in this lifetime ...

And yet, we are told that God created us to glorify Him.  How does my driving a Jaguar glorify God?  How does my possession of anything glorify God?

You and I are to be a stranger in a strange land, we are to be His representative - an ambassador - to a lost and dying world.  It means we are NOT apart of the land we live in, we are a part of the land we are to go to when we leave this one!  That is the concept of ambassador, representative - not a member of, not a mirror image of the culture you are staying in!

God does not you to accumulate wealth, he needs you reaching out and touching lives for Him!  That would be all of those lives on the other side of your car door, the other side of you house door, the other side of the walls you throw up to keep people away.  They are so annoying after-all!

Instead we spend billions believing we are extending our lives, when in fact God tells us we can not draw one more breath than he has given us.  You WILL die at the appointed time and there is nothing you can do about it.  Sorry, ripped abs or not, if that bread truck backs over you, it is over.

We spend billions to send other people to witness, others to reap the harvest WE were told to be a part of.  Our cultic religion tells us that our money lets us be a part of the harvest, to gain brownie points in heaven with God.  Really?  God never told anyone to donate well, blessed are those whom donate and then ignore their responsibilities ...  You get the point.  You are called to action - not planning, not procrastinating, not sending someone else in your church (or even someone you do not even know!).

If we do not wake up this sleeping church there will literally be masses swept away, believing they were the chosen, they were the faithful, but they did nothing and thought - had been taught! - this was just fine with God.

Wake up Christian!  Get into a Bible study!  Oh you don't like the teaching?  You don't like the leaders?  You don't like the other people at the study?  Then you must be mighty special because God says your righteous is nothing but "filthy rags"!  Get on your knees, Get over yourself, Get into submission to God and his representatives, and then learn and grow the way God ordained that you should!  (realizing of course that the church of today is lost and corrupt - however, God still has his faithful everywhere, you just have to pray and search them out!  by the way, they are ones whom do not agree with you if the beginning of this paragraph is you .... )