Is He Your God?

Genesis 24:12 And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.” (NLT)

                Growing up in a house of 11 kids is an experience.  We were raised to understand the Bible and to follow God’s laws.  It wasn’t until I was much older though that I was able to take ownership of who GOD was for me.  For many years I saw God as a disciplinarian.  As I grew older God became more real in my life and I began to realize that God was so much more than that.  When He created man, his desire was not to be a ruler or disciplinarian.  Instead, he wanted to be in a relationship with us.  We broke that relationship when we sinned.  God then provided a means for man to still have a relationship with Him in the form of His Son.  The problem for so many is that we don’t see past our sin to a loving father.  We keep feeling that we must continue to be punished for our sin and we can’t see that God has already forgiven us for it.  The verse for today reminds me that so many times when we pray to God, we don’t look at him as our savior, but instead he is someone else’s God and we are just talking to Him with hopes that He will help us because of their relationship.  The awesome thing is that because of Jesus Christ, we can take ownership of the relationship with God and we can approach Him on our own.  What a magnificent way to start the day, worshipping YOUR heavenly Father!