After writing the Name It, Claim It blog post, I kept looking for a better way to describe how we treat God like a cosmic vending machine—and then I found it:
Yes, sometimes we humans try to rope God into our dark plots and use God to help us scramble to the top of the pyramid, where we can dominate over others. Yes, we sometimes try to enlist God to condemn those we want to condemn, deprive those we want to deprive, even kill those we want to kill. But God isn’t willing to be domesticated into our little tribal deity on a leash who will “sic ’em” on our command. While we plot ways to use God to get blessings for ourselves, God stays focused on the big picture of blessing the world—which includes blessing us in the process.
From You Make the Road by Walking
I have clearly misunderstood how I should relate to the Sovereign God. Perhaps the on-demand culture confused me, slowly training me to treat God as though He had no will of His own, obligated to respond to my every whim like a Genie would.
I don’t think I’m alone in this.
If you look into your life today, do you think you have domesticated God, asking Him to yield to your will and not the other way around?
jessa 
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