What are you going to do with God?

As we begin the new year, I would like you to ponder this question.

As I see it, there are only three things that we can do.

We can reject God, and pretend He doesn’t exist. Maybe you’ve had something tragic happen and you blame God. Or perhaps out of that experience, you don’t think a God could exist because He bad things to happen. So you just ignore Him and pretend He’s not here.

We can set Him aside until we really need Him. Most people inadvertently choose this one. This is when we wait till something terrible happens, then we call on Him, usually with one of those promises that not even we can expect us to keep – O Lord, if you’ll get me out of this one, I promise I’ll… Most of us have made one of these before.

We can let Him be the God that He is. We can make him our God. We can live our life in the center of God’s will for us.

The first option is very popular, but feeds off the notion that ignorance is bliss. We all know better, ignorance is ignorance.

The second option is a compromise. We will admit God is real. But we won’t call on Him unless we really need Him. But doesn’t that try to make us God over Him? If we tell Him to leave us alone unless we call, we’re placing ourselves above Him.

Only the third option can allow God to be who God already is. And God doesn’t need us to be who He already is. But when we acknowledge Him, and we seek His will, He will pour His blessings upon us.

The neat thing is, it doesn’t matter what we’ve chosen in the past, or even why we’ve chosen it. We can choose again now. And God will rejoice at our letting Him be who He is – He is our God.