 This is going to be about three minutes maybe. I want to give you a little quick story and then quick little message that I think may help you. We were poor growing up. Didn't have a lot of anything and when we had cereal as little boys to eat it was always the kind of the cheap welfare brand or corn flakes. Rarely could we get the good stuff right? The fruity pebbles, the lucky charms. Every now and then though we could get it. When we got it though sometimes we didn't have enough milk. Well this was the rule. If my brother ate cereal before I did and oftentimes he knew that we were low on milk so he would get cereal first so he can make sure he got his and if I go to get cereal well if there weren't enough milk if there wasn't enough milk you know it had to happen it's gonna sound kind of gross guys but this is how it was for us. My mother would take that milk that he left over he would have to save his milk and pour it on top of my cereal. Yeah yeah right well Corey what does this incredibly gross story have to do with anything? Well my mother would tell me Corey if you want the cereal this is how you're gonna get it you're not getting it your way you're gonna get it the best way you can get it and so what would I do if I wanted fruity pebbles because I promise you my brother if I don't eat it he'll come back and get some more so I would eat it. It actually wasn't as bad as it as it may sound but that's how it was. What does that have to do with anything? Isaiah puts it this way let's see if it helps. In chapter 26 verse 90 says my soul yearns for you in the night my spirit within me earnestly seeks you for when your judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness and so the lesson is I would when we knew we had cereal down there I thought about it and I really did I really wanted well the same whole is true for us. If you want God one you ought to be yearning for him but you need to realize the purpose of God the purpose of God is to give you what you need not want you not what you want the purpose that God the thing that God aspires in your life is to bring you closer to him and sometimes the way about it is not in the way you want it it's not in a cushy air conditioned fashion it's not in the fashion that's going to tickle your ears or make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside or give you some sort of emotional high get you sweating and frothing at the mouth no sometimes what God gives you is just his word plain and simple straight maybe not in the best fashion maybe because you're going through something he may give to you that way however God comes to you he is more than enough the problem is oftentimes we don't want him how we can get him we want him on our terms not on his terms well my mother told me this she said you got two choices one eat it or two don't eat the cereal but a third choice is not an option that was you're not going to sit and complain about it for some of you king james version folks let me give it to give you give you this passage in the king james version i like the way it says it he says but without faith in chapter 11 verse 6 it is impossible to please him for he that's us that come to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him see our problem is we say we seek him but we seek him on our own terms you want this but you want it in a certain fashion you want blessings from God but you don't want to be a blessing to God you want to hear from God but you don't you don't care if God actually ever hears from you you want God in the in the best way possible like with my gross example if i wanted cereal do i care if this if it's fresh milk well today obviously you want some fresh milk i'm not advocating doing what we had to do but the example is that if i really wanted it then i don't care what circumstances i had to get it same thing with God if i really want God then i will diligently seek after him and what does he say then it is an if then proposition if you diligently seek after him then he is going to be a rewarder of those that do so and so he's not setting he's not saying that you've got to come at him in the best set of circumstances there are people in the planet who don't have the ability to worship the Lord like we do here in America there are some people have different trials and tribulations they have to go through just to even go to church just to even have a Bible and what does the Bible say about them he is a rewarder for them who diligently seek him that's how we ought to be amen