Rejoicing this morning with the news that a strong believer scored a major victory last night. Found myself all week praying for the results to be where I wanted them to be (also prayed that the devil's choice Jezebel wouldn't win, and praise the Lord she finished third). I could hear myself making "promises" that if Huck captured 2008 via the Lord's power, I'd do A,B,& C.
Thinking this morning about our futile attempts at bribing God. Make no mistake, these are not negotiations. That third stage of grief is improperly labeled bargaining. Bargaining and negotiating can only occur if you actually have something to offer the other party. And understand this, we have no upper hand with God. He doesn't need our service, our resources, our gifts. Hello? He gave us all these things.
What we casually see as bargaining is actually bribery. We think God is somehow going to be enticed by our offers of more Godliness or more generosity or the end to some vice. Lord wants these things without His giving anything to you. He already gave us eternity, and here we are demanding more by trading away something that should already be His? Someone needs to take a class on negotiations and it isn't the Almighty.
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