Gifts use for excuses

Luke 14:18-20 "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.' "Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.' "Another one said, 'I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.' (NASB)
Why do we use what was given as a gift to enhance, enrich, and complement our lives, as we serve the Father be used as an excuse not to serve him? We use them to get out of doing the will of the Father, or accept the invitation of the Father. See, all the things the land, the possession, and people in the verses were all allowed by the father, for the abundant life, not for a life without the Father. What has God given you, us, and is now used as an excuse to not serve God. Is it going to college? Getting the new job? The anomaly, variance present in your mental, psychological or physical life? How about the friends and family members? The new relationship? The children? Etc. The very thing, person we are given to bless us, was never meant to stand between us and God’s relationship. How our priorities in our Christian life order become so awry. Is it because we did not count the cost of the choices made? Every choice made is accompanied by the following – unforeseen implications, unintended consequences, and requires a change in our life. We would do well to remember this when we are choosing. For all that is allowed to come into, happen in life is meant to enhance, not distract from it. If what is in our life make us more inclined to move further from Go, either it should have never been in our life, or we need to look with different lens to see what is before us for corrected vision. Always know God created and granted everything for our use in living and growth, not to detract from the relationship between us (God and me). We should never use what is given as a gift, to be use as an excuse to not serve, worship, praise, work, or seek God. So, the next time you get caught up in the gifts allowed, granted, and created by God for you, think about Job and what he did after losing everything…Job 1:20-21 - Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said,”Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD." (NIV) …Let us be like Job and not let ‘stuff’ get between us and God’s relationship so we can refuse the invitations from God because gifts are not excuses to be use against He; we choose to do this.