Is God A Vending Machine?

It's so easy to trust Christ when everything is falling apart, but what happens when everything seems okay?

Most people have been told at one point in their lives that when things get rough, they can fall on Jesus, metaphorically speaking. But why does it never occur to people to trust Jesus when things are easy? Doesn't it make more sense to assume God is at the center of the seemingly easy parts of our lives just as we assume He is of the hard parts? He is God, regardless of how life is going.
When things aren't going your way, what is your natural response? As a believer, your response is probably to bring your requests to God, trusting in His sovereign plan for you. And many of us know from experience that He may or may not answer these requests the way you hope He will. So when He doesn't, you keep persevering, knowing God is in control. But what do you do when He does?
Most often, we sort of forget that the reason we don't think we need to make time for God is because He's the reason we aren't in major trouble. He provides for our needs, and more often than not, we just don't remind ourselves that it was He, and not us.

Are we not all sinners? Have we forgotten that if not for Jesus we would all spend eternity separated from God? We need Jesus regardless of our earthly circumstances. I think the problem is that we focus too much on this life. In the craziness of the moment, we forget we have a lot more ahead of us than a few decades. So when things in this life seem perfect, though they never really are, we forget that if all you ever got from God was salvation through Jesus Christ, you would have much more than you deserve. You'd be too focused on how wrong things in your life are going to remember that. And then things start looking up, thanks to God, and you forget about Jesus again because life is great, so why worry about eternity?

God is not a vending machine. He's not your personal instant problem solver. God gives and takes away with His own perfect reasons. So rather than focus on what God is not doing for us when we aren't happy, we should start focusing on the fact that he gave us life in the first place, which we didn't deserve. And we should remember that we who are in Christ have an eternity with him. That alone should bring us a joy that we can't even contain. So let's rejoice in the Lord always. Let's share the joy with everyone. Let's remember that Jesus is all we need and not worry about anything else. Regardless of our circumstances and our feelings, let's remember to trust Christ in everything.
"Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock." -Isaiah 26:4