On-Demand

We are becoming an on-demand society where we don't have to wait for any of the things we want. Tivo gives us whatever TV show we want on demand. Our iPods let us listen only to the music we want to hear right now. The Internet gives instant sexual stimulation. We can almost instantly get a date through on-line dating. Restaurants give us access to pretty much any food that we want right after we crave it. So we are used to wanting, seeking out, and consuming whatever it is we desire on-demand.

The problem is that the things that are most important in life don't come on-demand. We have to wait. We have to compromise. We don't get exactly what we want right now, and we get upset. We have been spoiled, spoiling some of the better things in life that we could of otherwise had if we didn't demand instant gratification exactly in the way we envisioned it.

God has a plan bigger and better than anything we could have thought of for ourselves. However, instead of waiting for it to unfold, we try to make our own plans, disregarding God and everyone else. We have become a self-centered, selfish society.