ATTITUDES
Illustration★★★★Victor Frankl, who spent a long time in a concentration camp, describes what it was that made life tolerable for some while others simply gave up and died. “What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life,” he said.
“We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.” Put that statement in a Christian context and it sounds like this: “What is needed is a fundamental change in our attitude toward God. What matters most is not what we expect from Him but what He expects from us.
We need to stop wondering about what we can get out of God and instead think of our- selves as being questioned by God—daily and hourly.” These may seem like harsh words; and yet if He is God, then doing business with Him is on His terms, not ours.
Lee, H.W., “On God’s Terms” . if f.
The point
Frankl's profound insight that what matters is not what we expect from life but what life expects from us; applied to faith, the question becomes not what we get from God but what God requires of us.