At youth the other night we played the game bigger or better.  A simple game where you start with a penny and try and trade for the coolest thing.  I definitely think I may have been given the coolest group there was, but I may be biased. Though are team did end with a scooter and a kitchen play set, though not enough to beat a working t.v. 

The idea of trading up led me to thinking about our relationship with God. There is the good way we could go with this thought, that the longer we are with God the bigger and better things get.  But thats not what I was thinking about.  

See I was looking at this more how we aren’t usually satisfied with what God gives us so we want to trade it in for something.  God gives us a coke, we’ll return it for a coke zero.  Jesus cures our headache but well go see the doctor for out foot thats hurting.  So on and so forth… with probably better examples.  What ever God does we don’t seem to get that it is more than enough for all of our needs (thats in the bible).  Thats the issue though we keep wanting to trade up for a God that doesn’t supply just our needs but all of our wants to.  Heck we probably want a God that supplies just our wants, because we don’t really rely on Him for our needs.  I guess we really want a Gennie, not a savior.  

Here is the thing if we got this, sure we would get all the stuff we wanted, but we would not get saved from hell.  For the most part we are oblivious to our need to be saved from our own damnation.  That is the primary need God made sure to take care, you want out, Jesus is your out.  No matter how kewl the next XBOX is it is not worth the fact the genie god can’t save you from hell.  

In the scriptures it tells us to approach God humbly.  Pride is why we want what we want, and keep wanting.   Thats why to be satisfied and to glorify God, we need to humble ourselves for Him. Then our gifts will be bigger and better.