Americanized God ..

I'm sitting here as I began to talk to the Lord I couldn't help but become overwhelmed to think just maybe I could be wrong about the things that I have made God out to be..The more I begin to read His word and look at the world around me, the more I see that my perspective of God is someone what faulty and not built on the solid truth of who He really is ..Instead it is who I've made Him out to be. Fitting  my own fleshly materialistic box. Have you ever thought to yourself what if you too have been lying about God? am I closer to carnality than I actually am to Him?

According to the Greek dictionary, it means to have the nature and characteristics of the flesh (or more simply, it means “fleshly”). What, then , is the flesh? Sometimes it refers to the whole material part of man 1 Corinthians 5:9, Hebrews 5:37 and based on this meaning, carnal sometimes relates to material things like money Romans 15:27 or to the opposite of our weapons of spiritual warfare 2 Corinthians 10:4. But the word flesh also has a metaphorical sense when it refers to our disposition to sin and to oppose or omit God in our lives.

I get so overwhelmed when I think about American Christianity because a large portion of the body of Christ including myself have made God fit their standards and ways of life vs them fitting His standards and ways of life. That is why it is easy for us to ask Him for material possessions and if we ever had to live amongst those who were poor we would honestly feel like that something was wrong with us. The church has told us that the more money, and material possessions that we have that means we are blessed by God. What do you say to the orphans widows and the rest of the world who lives well below  what we consider poverty here in America? but yet God is known in such a tangible way in those places because they aren't surrounded by "STUFF". We have the freedom to carry our bibles and even to share the gospel openly with others and we don't do it! We think that we are doing God a favor by even showing our faces at church on a Sunday and get mad at the preachers if the service is a minute too long because we need to go EAT!

While all these things are true I am sure that there are others that the Lord are going to raise up within this nation to speak truth and awaken this generation from out of their slumber. Its time that we get serious with ourselves and with God. Jesus will return for His bride and all because we go to church on Sunday it will not give us a free ticket to heaven ....