IMHO the "I deserve" mentality springs from the "me" generation. In their view, "it's all about meeeeee." "The universe revolves around meeeeee." "Looking out for number one" and so.
Successful marketers do not sell drills, they sell holes. Why? Because that's what people want.
It works.
The disease is not in marketing but in the "me" lie. And that was the appeal to Eve in the Garden of Eden in the first place!
Man is woefully blind and stupid. Because he is self-aware, he concludes that self is what all that there is is all about. How dumb!
We cannot sense how fast we are moving through the cosmos or the proportion of cosmos to quantum or relativistic time. We cannot see over the horizon or behind our backs or into the past or future or even a closed box. Worse, no matter how much we love someone we can never truly understand him. We can never see through his eyes.
What idiots we are when we believe that it's all about meeeeee.
Just look at the game shows from the 50s, it was very common for people to speak about Jesus, God, Scriptures, Bible stories. And they were reverent.
But now, the only way God's Name is acceptable in the media for public consumption is when it is spoken as an expletive. And they gasp in horror when His Name is uttered in reverence out-of-school, e.g. Tebow.
The Supreme Court has overturned evil decisions in the past, e.g. Dred Scott. And recently, they rejected the Obama administration and sided 100% with religious institutions' rights to hire and fire based on religion.
Moreover, a recent decision in the 7th (Kaufman v McCaughtry) determined that atheism is a religion. This means by removing God's Name from publicly funded institutions, the Supreme Court inadvertently established atheism as the religion of the land.
I pray urgently and earnestly that a case will come before the Supreme Court making that point and that the court will be ready to overturn or at least chip away at their own past, evil decision so that Freedom of Religion instead of Freedom from Religion can be re-established in our beloved country.
God's Name is I AM!
Excellent, excellent points!
Thanks so much!
IMHO the "I deserve" mentality springs from the "me" generation. In their view, "it's all about meeeeee." "The universe revolves around meeeeee." "Looking out for number one" and so.
It's all that entitlement mentality. Now that I think about it, I think it's what's the driving force behind the name it and claim it Christianity that's out there.
The mentality that we are the children of God, which all true believers are, and that as those children, we have the *right* to certain things, like health and wealth.
Now, granted God is our provider and has made promises, but what I see is the difference between someone resting in those promises and acting like a petulant, spolied brat DEMANDING things from God, as if He's a sugar daddy, there to provide them with every whim and protect them from every unpleasantness.
That is not how God gets the glory in us becoming overcomers.
Entitlement mentality has permeated the church and is destroying it. Instead of looking at what we can do to minister to others and share the love of Christ with them, I see too many people trying to see what they can get from God for their own personal happiness and contentment, all being justified with the mentality that once they have that, THEN they'll give to the poor and share what they have, etc.
It's SOOOO backwards.
FWIW, Dred Scott was not overturned by the Supreme Court.
It was overturned by a bloody Civil War followed by the 13th and 14th Amendments.
Hi Alamo-Girl,.....
This election is going to reveal much I think....it does seem God is drawing a line in the sand and asking each one who they will serve....the problem is the deceptions are so convincing to the uninformed, and those unfamiliar with scripture, that the public is so very easily mislead and willingly so..... We saw that at Obamas election...and now we have one running who ‘counterfeits’ what people somehow now believe we need to turn back to...(God)... but it’s a movement to the “false religions” under a One World Unity of Religions. I am very afraid we may have waited too long...it sometimes seems the most we can accomplish is slowing the trajectory down at best.