Pssst!! wanna be your own god?

Sunday July 10th, Genesis 3: "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ““You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." This is the basis of sin, the basis of our separation from God. It is the desire to be like God, to be in charge and to call the shots. The result of course is that God is simply our pawn who job it is to respond to out beck and call. It really doesn’t work that way however. God is and will be God not our own personal prayer vending machine. What we get is not always what we ask for. Sometimes what we get is not even what God wants. But we always get the presence of God in our lives. Everything else is secondary.