"Spiritual Entitlement"

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God."  Ephesians 2:8

There is a mentality in this country called entitlement.  It is a "devilish" mindset.  It believes that a person is entitled to the same thing as someone else has yet without paying the price to receive it.  It believes it should receive the same wages for flipping hamburgers as someone who went to college for eight years in order to earn a degree.  It believes it should have the same things that it took others years, or a lifetime, to work for.  It believes that what you have should be theirs also.  They are entitled to your things.  Many believe that just because they are alive and breathing that entitles them to anything and everything they desire. 

This entitlement has moved into the "spiritual" area.  People think they are entitled to go to heaven and to have eternal life just because they go to church.  They believe they are entitled to go to heaven because they attend on Easter and Christmas, because they put a few dollars in the offering plate, because they do some religious duty within the church or because they were born in a "Christian" nation. 

None of these things entitle you to heaven.  None of these things-- no matter how religious they may be-- entitle you (give you the right) to eternal life.  Salvation is not an entitlement.  It is a gift.  The gift of God is eternal life.  And it comes through faith and surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over your life. 
Just because you were born doesn't entitle you-- give you the right-- to go to heaven.  As a matter of fact, the opposite is true.  If there is any entitlement spiritually speaking it is the fact that you were born a sinner, and as a sinner you are entitled to hell.  That is the only right you have.  That is the only "reward" that you have coming to you. 

Have a great day.  You have no entitlement to heaven unless you have received the gift of eternal life through faith and surrender to Jesus Christ.