So every time I felt God had betrayed me, I would go back to the Bible to search for the promise or commitment that God had broken. The problem was, I couldn’t find any verse that said he owed me anything. Or a verse that said if I was good enough, I deserved something. I began to realize that my disappointment with God wasn’t something he’d done to me; it was something I’d done to him. I had put conditions on our relationship that were never meant to exist. I had a sense of entitlement. I thought I deserved better. But I don’t. Nowhere in Scripture does God say that if we’re good, then he’ll
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