"Be Thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort...for Thou art my rock and my fortress."

                            -Psalms 71:3 

There are many reasons why I love this passage of Scripture, but one thing that really sticks out to me is the two words, "continually resort".  Many people tend to think of God as a last resort; Someone to turn to when everything else fails, instead of a  continual resort that we can go to in the good times as well as in the bad.

I don't know about you, but if I knew somebody that was only interested in being my friend when it was convenient for them - say, when they needed to borrow money - I probably wouldn't stay friends with that person very long. Could it be that God is the same way? I would say that He probably gets tired of prayers like this: "Dear God, please meet my needs, supply my wants, and satisfy all my desires. Amen." It's not that He doesn't want to bless us, but if we're only "serving" Him in order to get blessed, then something is wrong somewhere.

"...shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?..."
                            -Job 2:10

Job understood that serving God is about more than just getting blessed, and we would do well to follow his example.