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When you’re living the life that you “should” be, when (with various fits and starts, falls and jumping back ups) you are doing that which you should be, when you are pursuing God’s will by virtue of doing what He wants, and NOT doing other things, when you are “Being Good” why is that not reward enough?

Why is there the thought of just recompense from God?

When we screw up, we sure are Hell (pun intended) seem to feel it/know about it; why is it not the same for “the good,” at least not on an obviously tangible level?

“Being Good is it’s own reward.”  Seriously, shut it. I’m not questioning the need for doing good, or living correctly, or the spiritual rewards and internal enlightenment felt by being in the center of God’s will. No. I am refering to the need for PAITENCE in the face of other things, tangible things, which we want.

The feeling that “I am doing X, therefore, God should provide Y.” The Vending Machine God, with a twist. It’s not just begging him for a treat: we have in fact done what He has asked, and would like Him to return the favor. We have submitted to His will, and we want Him to . . . ah, yes: Submit to ours.

“There is the rub that make a calamity of so long a life . . .”