Entitlement.

We do not deserve anything.

All I can think of is this word. Entitlement. Give me. I need. I deserve. Mine. Want. Gotta have it. Give it to me. I hear these phrases way to often. 

People in high authorities think they are entitled to the big bucks, nice cars, fancy houses. 

Children believe that they can have the world, if only it would fit in their hands. 

Teenagers have the mindset that they deserve freedom and privacy because they are almost adults.

Those who do work think that they should not have to have money taken from them.

Homosexuals think that they deserve to marry one another because they have a 'love' (temptation and sinful desires) for another. 

Those who don't work think they should get money sent to them every month that is taken out of the working peoples' paychecks.

Sinners think that they deserve to live a worry free life, to have everything they want to be thrown at them and to be happy.

If I've learned something in my past 16 years its that we all feel like we deserve something. Because we are so great, we should be allowed to have great things or do great things or go great places.

Can I tell you what we deserve? 

We deserved to be whipped. We deserved to be betrayed. We deserve to carry the tree that we will be nailed to. We deserved the crown of thorns. We deserve to be spat upon. We deserve wrath. We deserve hell. 

Can I tell you what I won't get?

I won't get what Jesus got. 

Can I tell you why?

It is finished. He loves me. He took my place and bore my sins. He was thinking of me while He was hanging on that cross. He loves me. 

Can I tell you that it doesn't end there?

My Jesus. My Jesus. MY JESUS died. He came back, rose from the grave and is sitting with His father in heaven interceding for me. {Luke 24, Romans 8:34} but not only that. HE IS COMING BACK. One day He will call me home, He will call all his people home, what a glorious day!!!!!!!!!

How great! Gives me Chills!

However, back to entitlement.

BELOVED, you do not want what you truly deserve. You do not truly want what you are entitled to. You do not want the baggage of your sin and shame. Grace is all that's left. I don't know about you, but all I want is Jesus.

He gave it all, I am so thankful, and I know that it is well.

story teller// Morgan Harper

do good things,
Hanna Grace<><



P.S. Not sure where I was going, just thoughts. I love everyone, nothing here is meant to be judgmental. Just a chance for you to read my conversations with God and how I am feeling. May you be blessed.