I don’t get no respect.
That’s from Rodney Dangerfield, one of his signature bylines.
What he means is that he doesn’t get credit for his achievements, both as a comedian and as a man, father, and husband.
Other people have their own agendas, and they don’t include Rodney.
Many of us treat God the same way. We are doing business, raising our kids, and making plans for retirement. We don’t ask permission or consider God’s wishes, and it never occurs to us to give him credit for helping us out.
God don’t get no respect (to use Rodney’s amusing vernacular).
James 4:13-14 should set us on our ear:
“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.”
How much of what we do during our lifetime will have any impact on the world 50 years after we’re gone? 100? 150? Very little, if we’re not one of a handful of movers and shakers already in power.
Even the wealthy tycoons of the early 1900s are mostly forgotten, except for a few oversized mansions and city parks. The society notables who famously went down with the doomed Titanic are now relegated to the history book, and only a byline at that.
God’s plans count, and they are the only ones we should depend on. Everything else is a mist that vanishes with the rising sun as the world moves on without us.
Let’s give credit where credit’s due. God is Master over all creation.
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