What do you deserve

Advertising today is amazing. Think about it, here is a group of smart people hired and paid big money to make you want to buy this or that product. These are people that know how to work that salesman charm and they know what makes you tick. So I follow advertising trends with interest. Want to know where Americans are at today? Watch the commercials. Which brings me to the meat of this post.

What do you deserve today? I am sure you have seen the commercials, you deserve a BMW, you deserve a prime steak dinner, you deserve a 5000 square foot house, don't wait because you deserve to have this gold necklace. WHY?! What makes us, in this disillusioned American culture, think we deserve a thing except to be Damned? Day after day the TV tells us that we deserve this, that and the other. Why, because we are such fine people? Did we do something spectacular that gives me the right to feel that I deserve to have a Porsche? Am I missing something here? Perhaps some angel of God came down and told us that we earned ourselves a break today? Because I am really confused here, people around me are telling me that we deserve it. When I agree with them and tell them that we all deserve to be going to hell for our sins I get the strangest looks. And the worst place is the Christian churches. COME ON PEOPLE! Brothers and Sisters are starving to death in Africa and you deserve to be financially rich because of your faith (and because you are making the pastor rich)??? I mean, we have the examples of the Apostles and early church fathers that chose poverty. Name one rich Apostle....... Just one.... If any of Christ's followers deserved to be rich it would be an Apostle right? Why do you deserve to be rich? What makes you so special above all the others of God's children? Don't you know when you are being tickled, are you so desperate for the things of this world, or so weak in faith that you don't trust God's promise?
You know the Lord's prayer, the one that asks for todays needs? Give us this day our DAILY NEEDS. Nothing there about wants or deserves. Give us this day our steak dinner because we deserve it? Are you really that sad?

GOD WHERE IS MY BMW, YOU SAID I DESERVE IT!!

Why don't you pray for God to make the starving people in the third world countries rich so they can feed their children? Truthfully, I think that the majority of American Christians are pathetic. We worry more about the stains on our clothes then we do about the stains on our souls. We want to be lead astray by things that must make God shake his head in dismay. I am reminded of children who spend their days chasing butterflys and rainbows rather then sit at the feet of Jesus and learn his truths.
Back to the advertising. If the phrase "you deserve a..." didn't work they wouldn't use it, so, obviously it does work and you, dear brother and sister are the ones that believe it. Do you really deserve the things of this world? Because if you do you don't deserve the salvation of God.