The Answer to God's Entitlement

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The Answer to God's Entitlement

After much deliberation... well actually it had to do more with not being finished by my deadline and having more to write... so like I was saying, after much deliberation and a poke at my readers attention span, I give you the reasons why it's okay for God to have entitlement issues.

1. He's God and we're not:

Plan and simple, God created everything in the universe. He created the heavens, the earth, light, darkness, the air we breath, animals, water, steak, pizza, crab cakes, lucky charms, buffalo wings, ice cream, cheesecake (sorry, I was kinda hungry when I wrote this post) and us (humanity, mankind, people, etc.). He deserves everything that is coming to Him regardless if you think he has done anything for you or not (just an FYI, He has).

2. Just because entitlement looks bad on us doesn't mean it looks bad on Him:

Can anything look bad on God? God could be rockin' a mullet and it would still be Almightily Awesome. Wow, that sounds like good lyrics for a country song. Entitlement is the ugly step sister of gratuity, so what we see as God's entitlement is actually sinless entitlement, gratuity. He is thankful for us, regardless of our sin and shortcomings. He is thankful just like any parents are thankful of their children. That is what God bestowed upon mankind, He didn't impress us with entitlement but with gratuity.

3. Entitlement, just like Boy Bands, shouldn't exist:

The first being to show entitlement was cast down into the fire and pits of Hell. The moment that Satan felt that He deserved more than God had given him, he mounted a war against Him. Satan lost, sin lost but we still live and live with sin. Light and dark, entitlement and gratitude. Obviously entitlement is not of God, it was not created by God, so God could not bestow it upon us. Entitlement is an attitude of ungratefulness an attitude of sin and sin can not come from God. Thus, a lot like American Idol, entitlement should not be among us.

So in the end what I've learned about entitlement, God and mankind is that we can not confuse what we feel in our lives or how the world has molded us from what God is trying to do in our lives. As easy as it would be to say, “I'm entitled because God is entitled! You can't tell me not to be, because God made me this way!” We have to look at our lives and align them with the Truth.