“What do you want from God?”

That was the question posed by a speaker one night as I was watching a webcast from a popular mega-church. He was warming everyone up for the offering.”If you want to get back hundreds, give hundreds…if you want to get back thousands, give thousands. We want our breakthrough! This is MY year, MY time.”

The longer I watched, the sadder I grew. Something wasn’t right. All this talk about what God could do for us.

Since when was it all about what we wanted from God? Since when did we have the right to expect God to make us rich. How can we say this is MY time when it’s God who created time in the first place and allows us to live one moment longer?

What ever happened to the right question: What does God want from you?

I know too often in my own life I find myself asking the wrong question. Asking God to make my life better, to fix my problems, and focusing so much on my own failings that I miss the whole point – “Father, who do you want me to be, what do you want me to do – for YOU?”

We’re just dust, people. Here today and gone tomorrow. God is the eternal GOD. Let’s stop thinking so highly of ourselves and ask the right question. Not what do I want from God – but what does God want from me.