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DAY ONE: How to Accept God as He Is

Do you want more of God, or do you want more from God? 

Wanting more of God is desiring Him for what He is in Himself. Wanting more from God is using Him to accomplish your goals.

Wanting more of God is partaking of the “divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire” (2 Pet. 1:4). Wanting more from God is seeking Him to get what you want.

The question comes down to this: Why has God revealed Himself to us? It is, of course, primarily to save us and assure us that we will go to heaven when we die. But there is more.

When we pray for more of God, we accept Him as He is. It means accepting not only His Word and His ways but also His will.

God has a will of His own. For each of us. He is not looking to us for input. His Word—the Holy Scriptures—reveal His will. It is an unimprovable will. What He has in mind is better than anything we can come up with. God only wants what is best for us. We are fools if we try to “upgrade” what God has in mind.