The other was so beautiful outside that I had to take the top off my Jeep, get my best girl (and my only), and my dog and go for a ride. As we were driving down the road, I happen to glance back and witnessed Ruby with her head stuck half way out the Jeep, trying to bite the wind as we drove. She seemed to have this confused look about the whole scenario. She could feel the wind, hear the wind, and knew it was there, but when it came time to eat the wind she came up empty.
This can be the similar to our experiences with God. As we go through life, we know He is there, we can feel Him and sometimes even think we hear Him, but when we reach out and try to use Him to satisfy our own appetites, He seems decidedly absent. Then we walk away so confused and bewildered.
One of the reasons we become so disappointed with God lies within the deep recesses of our motivations. We have turned God into a cosmic Credit Card, or a year long Santa Claus. We have turned God into a way to satisfy our own pleasures and wishes. But isn't about giving you everything you want, in fact we were created for His pleasure. It is important that what we do in life has the sole motivation behind it of pleasing God. That is not to say we must become a monk and deprive ourselves of good things in life. But some of those things will come when we turn our eyes off ourselves and onto Him.
BTW: I want to apologize to any of you who may have been following behind me that day. We are aware that Ruby has a slight drooling problem!
