All You Need

People want all sorts of things. People even want things from God. What is that all about anyway? To so many (too many), God is some candy machine or credit card. This is obvious if you watch the right (read: wrong) Christian television shows or attend certain churches where you can learn to have your "best life now" or to accentuate the "positive."

The health and wealth gospel is a wicked, wasting disease that infects the American landscape for the most part. It is so far off the map in regard to true Christianity that it's really not even within the pale of orthodoxy.

How is it that we get so derailed? How does our view of God become so defiled? It must be in large part due to a gross misunderstanding of grace and of Christ.

In 2 Samuel, King David has to flee for his life from his own son Absalom. (See the previous post...) In the rush, crippled Mephibosheth is betrayed and left behind by his steward Ziba (click here for background on Mephibosheth). Upon the death of Absalom and the return of David to his palace and his power, the king's offer to restore Mephibosheth's real estate that was taken by Ziba is refused and these beautiful words are uttered by Mephib: "Let him take everything, now that my lord the king has arrived home safely." Nothing was more important than his king, nor was anything else necessary.

These words of Mephibosheth contain what should be the heart's desire of every believer: My Redeemer lives, I want nothing else but Him!

As Charles Spurgeon once penned, "God's smile and a dungeon are enough for a true heart."

We must adore Christ, and not His blessings; we must seek God's face and not just His hand!