From Pastor John Collins:
“What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?” Romans 9:22-24 (NKJV).
What does the world owe you? What do
your parents owe you?
Does your wife or husband
deserve you? Does your boss
know how lucky they are to have you? Do your children realize how blessed they are to
have you as a parent? Have
you gotten your due? Does the world
recognize your greatness,
your beauty, your special
something that makes it better? Doesn’t everyone around you acknowledge that even God has chosen you to bless so
they should bow down to you as well??
Ah, entitlement, egos
and arrogance is the fatal
flaw is the human being
because it leads to death although while it envelops you on earth it feels like
life. Ah, that glorious sense that you are better than another, that you
deserve to be recognized, that even God has lifted you
up and made others aware of your importance is just a test to see if you will
be gullible enough to think
more of yourself than you ought to. God
may seem to bless and choose and give so much to a person and really it is to
see what that person will do with it. Will they believe that they deserve
it, will they think that they earned it, will they believe that God wanted to
reward them openly, will they think that they are more special than others?? Be
careful of how highly you think of yourself because when an ego thinks
that it is above, better than and deserving more than another is when that ego will find itself crushed
whether in this life or in death because there will never be a place in heaven
for a person filled with arrogance,
entitlement and self-grandeur.
The very
breath in your body is a gift and there
are billions who take that gift for granted every
day. This world has become a mess
with children
thinking that the world owes
them, with parents never
happy and feeling that they deserve more and more, with greedy
companies and corrupt
governments and with the things of God
under attack and God Himself under attack day by day, is it any wonder that
the people on this planet are such a corrupt
version of the beautiful beings that God created in the first place?
Kill your egos, people, humble yourselves before the cross of Christ and get right
with God. Your own behavior both outwardly and inwardly will determine your
outcome and whether or not you are a vessel of wrath or of mercy and you
yourself choose that outcome within your own heart. God does give each person
enough time to choose which path he or she will take so that in the end the
fault lies within and not with Him.
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NKJV).
