Here’s my dominant thought from the AM sessions at Catalyst: a sense of entitlement is the beginning of the end spiritually.

The second we feel like we deserve anything we’re in over our heads. I blogged a thought a few weeks ago: without God we’re Jack Squat. I had a correllary thought during this morning’s sessions. Here it is: we don’t deserve diddly-squat.

That’s my spiritual starting point. I don’t deserve diddly-squat. When you start there then you recognize the reality of James 1:17–every good and perfect gift comes from God.

Until we get to the point where we recogize that we know nothing and are nothing without God then we’re useless. You become useful when you recognize that you’re useless.

Diddly-squat.