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This was an article that I found this week that hit home on priorities. It made me think about what really is in important in life. Hope you enjoy it...........


Since when did God become an excuse? As I was praying on Thursday morning I realized that we use God to justify a lot of the silly things we do. We spend most of our time trying to earn money. We neglect rest, community, and sometimes family in order to get our money. Then we don’t just spend our money, we spend more than we have. We take out loans to buy houses that are bigger than we can afford, and cars that are nicer than we can afford. Then we’re trapped into paying for those things and we have to work harder, or longer hours, or try to get a better paying job. We spend even more time chasing after money. Then at the end of it all we say something So let me get this straight: I’ve neglected the things that I say are most important to me, the things that I believe are most important to God, in order to get something that “God gave me?” Somehow I doubt it. I wonder what life would be like if we didn’t buy the biggest house we could afford and instead bought the house we need. I wonder what it would be like if we weren’t so trapped by our debt that we have to live in fear of losing our jobs. I wonder what our churches would look like if we spent as much time seeking after God as we do chasing after money. I just can’t believe that God’s first priority is my happiness. I have to think that if there is going to be some miracle that it will be that the hungry mouths living on the street will be filled before I am given an H2. I hear phrases like, “I’m trusting God for a house.” Or, “We’re trusting God for our new church building.” But for some reason I rarely hear phrases such as, “I’m trusting God to give houses to the homeless.” Or, “I’m trusting God to feed the hungry.” Maybe it’s because we know that we’re, maybe it’s not a sin for someone to have a nice house. But why blame God for it? Let’s take responsibility for our situation. We have choices to make. Let’s make better choices. Let’s stop using God as an excuse. This health and wealth theology makes me sick sometimes.