Do you take God for granted? If yes, why? If no, why not?

Do you take God for granted?  If yes, why?  If no, why not?

Taking a rhetorical view of speaking for God when he has all the answers to life.  But on the other hand we need to stand in for what he would say to our questing towards what he gives to each of us.  

Anyone of us may finally say to someone who keeps asking us over and over without even a small thank you, what are you doing to my graciousness?  It is time for a point of reckoning before this generosity becomes a habit that has buried itself within our weakness of care for someone who asks. 

When we are in a moment of turmoil and feel that the end of peace has pulled us away from reality, our only resource is to call on God.  How many times this may occur doesn’t enter our mind, it becomes the path that is easiest for secure happiness.  If any of us were to think about how often we used God’s graciousness we might stop and consider his granting our desires for every dilemma we find ourselves in.  But we don’t, and that means taking God for granted is a mantra we/ve developed.  

Becoming a person who constantly finds themselves in need of a kind hand reaching down and pulling us away from severe injury is a fallen individual who is always accident prone.  This may not appear to be just a once-in-a-while occurrence, but each time an obstruction in life affects us   we need that hand that we are taking for granted.  Our answer to why do we take God for granted is a built-in acceptance of his generosity.

What about the question of seeking God’s generosity as if we expect it at our demand?  “Have faith in God.  Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him.  Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours.”  (Mk 11: 22 - 24). 

This completes the scenario of seeking God’s generosity and taking him for granted.  A moment as this is not being demanding without prayer, but expecting the best as Jesus spoke to his disciples about.  “Seek and you will find; for everyone who seeks, finds.”  (Mt 7: 7-8).  

Taking God for granted is not sacreligious or making a mockery of God’s generosity.  If we ask in faith and trust in his love as a father trusts his own children, then we share in the family that we have become as Christ said we would.  “Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish.  If you then, who are wicked, know how ro give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.”  (Mt 7: 9 - 11).  

Ralph B. Hathaway