Every time I hear it or read it, I have to ask, how do you know someone deserves something. What did they do to merit a reward? And I looked up deserve and it is about both a reward and a PUNISHMENT. Hey, you deserve to get an F on your homework. You deserve to be in jail. You deserve to get divorced. You deserved to crash your car. Would you hear those words with the same glee? Where did this entitlement mentality come from and how can I make it go away?
To me it seems quite normal to want personal peace and comfort for self, family, and friends, countrymen, and then the world. But to throw around YOU DESERVE this and that......
Life is a gift. I am grateful. I do not say it is wrong to have a treat or buy something you don't NEED. But people who fall into this I DESERVE thought pattern are in a trap of greed, love of money (sin) and insatiable desire.
I think if someone in a third world country heard an advertisement saying You DESERVE this, they would look at you with befuddlement!
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