"Beware of the inclination to dictate to God as to what you will allow to happen if you obey Him." - Oswald Chamber, My Utmost for His Highest
By the time many of us muster up the gumption to actually obey God, we do so under the assumption that He is now somehow indebted to us for our show of allegiance. We believe that He is lucky that we are giving Him this crumb of obeisance and that He ought to make it worth our while if He wants to incentivize more of it from us in the future.
All that to say, we must be careful not to attach caveats to our obedience by stating the terms of our future compliance contingent upon our present expectations being met.
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