Taking God for Granted

Have you ever taken someone for granted? The term means not appreciating the value one has in your life. If you are married your spouse has surely accused you of such an attitude, or maybe you have accused your spouse of the same. It's so easy to do and commonplace in society.

Whereas it's bad to take your spouse for granted, it is far worse to take God for granted. We do that in at least three ways.

We take God for granted when we fail to give Him credit for the our very existence. At any moment, God could require our soul. He sustains our very existence and without Him there would be no existence at all.

We take God for granted when we presume that we know more about what's better for our life than He does. Not guilty you say. How many times have you acted on your own initiatiive and failed to ask God for direction? In so doing you are minimizing the creator of the universe who is all knowing and could order your footsteps in the right direction.

We take God for granted when we erect a false god. No way you say. The god of our imagination is just as false as the handmade gods spoken of as idolatry in th Old Testament. God doesn't fit nicely into the box our mind has conceived. He is far greater than anything we can imagine.

Taking God for granted is part of our daily life. We might not want to admit it but it's true. For your best interest agree with God that your guilty and let Him show you a better way.