Negotiating with God!

I have spent a lifetime negotiating with God and I continue to play the game with him!  Despite the fact that I taught young couples for years and that I actually have a seminary degree, I no longer attend a church but I bargain and negotiate with God about it!  I still believe that there is a God and he cares for me!

And I search everywhere for justification! Like Abraham, leading patriarch!  God had had enough of the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18:20-32) and he was going to take them out!  But Abraham kept lowering the stakes.  Finally he got the stakes lowered to ten righteous people.

Roger Karban writes:  "From an early age,one learned and practiced the art of negotiating, and Abraham demonstrates this skill."  If it was okay for Abraham, I am claiming it for me!  God, just keep your hand on me, and take care of me and mine and I'll just keep playing these justification games and negotiating with you.   You have never failed me.  I wish I could say the same!