When we obey God we're doing it for ourself?

I was looking at the news on my IPhone and saw this article about Victoria Osteen who is married to a Christian evangelist from Texas. And the quote was: Christians respons to Victora Osteen's claim: "When we obey God we're doing it for ourself."

I started to think about this in a real sense rather than in a theoretical sense like many people do.

When I looked back, God wasn't a book, God wasn't a religion, God was real and Terrifying and I wasn't going to survive at all physically if I didn't do what God asked of me.

God, in reality doesn't have anything at all to do with either books (including the Bible) or people or religions. God is real and if you are called by God you will die if you don't respond.

It's very simple. If you get called you only have two choices: Die or respond to the call of God. It's not at all about religion at all. It's about dealing with the Creator of the universe and everything in it.

Your only real choice if you are called is to stay alive. There really is no other choice.

Once you choose to stay alive and serve God, then it can become fun like my life has been. But first, if you are called by God there is really no choice other than God or the death of your soul and body and everything.

This is the reality. Religions are things that people made up. The reality is way more real than any religion ever could be or should be.

But, unless you have experienced this for yourself, how would you know?

Later note: I realized after I wrote this that many of you are having a completely different experience than my life has been. So, I wish to honor all your experiences as well. For example, my youngest daughter believed in most of the same things my wife and I did. But then, she decided to go to a private Christian School in Junior High for one year. I see this as a mistake and told her and her mother not to do this because I knew she wasn't fundamentalist at all in a Christian sense. So, I knew she would be put down for this at a Protestant Christian private school, not necessarily by the teachers but by unthinking students who haven't learned to think for themselves yet. So, She decided after this that all religions were either right or they were all wrong. So, to her anyone who believes in any religion for now is completely crazy. So, anything spiritual is also crazy. But, I spent a couple of years thinking like this between ages 13 and 15 before God wouldn't let me live without making a commitment. So, my point of view is that people who don't believe in God haven't been called by him yet. Because once you are called you are either going to die likely including your soul or you are going to become an Incarnate Angel or something like that working for God.

Once God says, "I want you!" there isn't anything but accepting that or dropping dead. This is the point I wanted to make.

This is just as true as when you are driving a car down the road and if you took your hands off the steering wheel you would expect to likely be dead within about 1 to 5 minutes, especially if you were driving 70 mph at the time.

However, everyone has the experiences they have with life and God. And who am I to come in between that?

I think religions in general have a whole lot of karma that will come down on them all for trying to come in between people and their personal relationships with both Life and God. Without a personal connection to Life one doesn't survive and if God chooses you for some purpose one doesn't survive without accepting that. This is the point I'm trying to make here. It is very pragmatic sort of like driving a car down the road. It is completely practical.

So, the single most important thing you are doing here on earth is to make a connection with yourself, Life and God. This is my personal experience since I started to become more aware at age 2 in 1950.