What kind of friend

Think about this, would you want to be friends with someone who just wanted to be your friends because of what you could do for them? Yes, they were nice to you and wanted to be around you, but you knew it was because they didn't want to make you mad for fear that you might not do what they wanted.

They didn't really search out your heart and work to discover what your thoughts and dreams were. They do love you, but it is in a self-centered way. They acknowledge that you are usually right and are willing to listen, but you know that it all comes back to them wanting you to make their life easy, trouble free, and painless...and really pleasing you is secondary.

Not the kind of guy that you would want to be your best friend? Yet is that not the motivation that has become core to modern Christianity? From God's prospective is that what he sees and feels is at the heart of our relationship with him?

Yes, God wants us to bring everything to him. He is a giver, but he invites us into relationship with him because of who he is and not because of what he can do. Have we become so focused on reaching for what God's hand provides that I wonder if we have stopped reaching for the hand?

Today ask yourself, What am I saying to God about how I view him by the way I interact with him daily?