Savior or Santa Claus?
Jesus is not Santa Claus. This may seem an obvious statement. Yet how often do we request things of God and expect Him to deliver what we want, when we want, in the same way that a child expects of Santa Claus? Is your faith more grown up than that? Are you sure? What happens when we pray to the Lord asking Him to provide a healing, or deliverance, or provision but our answer does not arrive by "December 25th?" Or we think because we've been "nice" girls and boys that God owes us. C'mon. You know you've done this. We place deadlines on God! We could have all the faith in the world, but when God does not provide when and how we want, our faith is deflated. Now don't get me wrong. Jesus loves when we come to Him with our requests - it shows our faith and childlike trust in Him. But when we choose date markers of our own, well that is not what faith is about. Why would a loving Father have us wait? And wait and wait to give us what we think