DOES GOD OWE US ANYTHING

​This is the season of giving, yet there is still this attitude from some that they are owed something because they were handed stuff without working for it. Without conditions they received and there were no thank you notes, no hugs, no extension of gratitude whatsoever. Christmas is a time where it is better to give of the self and not wish for anything in return. It is a time where the greatest gift to all mankind is celebrated. But, we still have people who want, want, want.  
 Entitlement is when people feel that the world owes them something without having to do anything to earn it.
That is the mentality that has infected society especially the youth. The entitlement is in many forms and has even spread to some immigrants (legal and illegal) who believe because they are in this country they are entitled to things that we cannot even provide our own citizens without someone having to pay for it.
This is the result of the “Me” culture where God isn’t even in the picture. Many of these “entitlement” people have a history of making poor life choices which lead to bad consequences. Think of the possible consequences: mental and physical disabilities, diseases from drug and alcohol abuses, immoral lifestyles which lead to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, and poor choices regarding education just to name a few. Somehow, with the help of a liberal government, we have developed the attitude that it is our (taxpayers) responsibility to take care of the basic needs of these people. Ultimately we have created a society who lives off Government subsidies, welfare, etc. where people lose their desire to work to provide but is dependent on another. This dependency is very dangerous.
 Some Christians think that they are entitled something from God. Here is what “we” are entitled from God, DEATH. Remember we have sinned so we deserve death; we deserve to be apart from God. Listen to this Proverb:
 Proverbs 13:1-25 ESV
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...
How about James
James 4:1-12 ESV
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...
In this section he expresses in verse 6:
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Or what about these
2 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
HAVE YOU GOTTEN THE PICTURE YET
1 Timothy 5:16 ESV
If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.
Relying on the government places a tax burden on the country. Our taxes to Caesar are not given to pay for your laziness or unwillingness to help yourself.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
The person who cannot physically provide (unless due to honest disability) because of laziness is looked upon poorly. This result of Entitlement idealism is summed up in Galatians.
Galatians 6:7-8 (NKJV)
 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap. For he that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall reap life everlasting.
So if this generation believes they are entitled, what will the next generation think? When the economy collapses and the government fails, they will have nothing. If the lack of biblical teachings and understandings persist, the country will be in chaos. We will be raising a nation of completely ungodly people as in the days of Noah (of which we are almost completely there). The Bible teaches all the basic tenants of life with the most important being this: God’s Grace gives us forgiveness and His mercy gives us life! He gives us freedom, hope, love, and truth.                       God is Awesome!