“What do you WANT from me?!?” How many times have you heard someone (yourself?) ask this question? Too many wives pose this question to their husbands, and too many husbands pose it to their wives. And if numbers could go that high, we might be able to count the number of times parents are asked this by their teens! It’s usually asked in frustration from repeated failed attempts to please someone, only to be told time and again that you simply don’t measure up to or understand the expectations. This typically leads from frustration to anger, from anger to disillusionment, and from disillusionment to giving up.
“God, what do you want from me?” Some ask this thinking that God is withholding a life of painless living until we behave good enough to deserve it. So they try and try to do enough good things in order to earn God’s favor or blessing or approval. And when they fail, or when they don’t receive the blessing that they have asked for from God, this question returns again and again. It starts as a curious question “God, what do you want from me?” and over time becomes a desperate question, “God, what do you WANT from me?!?!”
Know anyone questioning whether or not they will give up on a relationship with God? Do you ever feel that God needs something from you that you’re not giving? Is it because you don’t know what it is, or is it because you don’t have it to give? Regardless, do you ever feel that the only way off of this merry-go-round of trying to meet God’s expectations is to just let him go? That life would be so much better if you stopped trying to earn God’s blessing and approval?
So stop.
Stop asking this question.
What if we started asking a better question?
Consider praying this one for the rest of this week: “God, what do you want for me?”
This Sunday we will answer this question.
Know anyone who needs to know the answer?
Forward this to them and invite them to come with you Sunday Morning as we study God’s word together.
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