You say that God offers me more than the world, but in this thread others have said God doesn't promise anyone a good life. Then what exactly does he offer us (Salvation?)
He offers us a door of escape. A way out. That door is Christ. He offers us what we really want; something unshakable and that something is Love. The real kind. Not the superficial kind. He offers us the opportunity to rule in His Kingdom. His word says God has no respect of persons but He does respect His own. Why? It is not what is on the exterior that makes us pleasing to God: It is what is in our heart that He respects: Love. As the Son demonstrated it. People who tell you God is collecting a peculiar people to rule with more of the same that is already demonstrated in this world, are wrong. God is not collecting a peculiar people to dominate and oppress; God is collecting a peculiar people that will rule with mercy and grace as was displayed in the Son. God offers us the opportunity to bear His name. Chosen is to be given the Spirit to demonstrate Christ. Demonstrate Him to who? to those that need mercy. This world is temporal and fading away so the offer is not more of this world but something far greater. You want a hero. God is it. You want love. God gives it generously. He is nothing like you explain. I see how it is confusing. Some get their promises. Others don't. But you have it backwards. God doesn't remove the twisted tricycles or the snakes or the hypocrisy...God's healing comes from all those things no longer having any power or dominion over the boy. "O death, where is your sting?" It is when the boy realizes all those things are temporary and are nothing to fear because the boy believes God when God says "I love you." This is when the healing comes. This is when the power comes. God doesn't love a person by giving them more bondage in the world. God sets free from bondage and I have found, God is perfect at working out this true freedom in a person. Think about it, God gives you a little slither of pie today but tomorrow your hunger is still there: No, God is not in the business of stringing you along with little temporary gifts to earn your love and affection. God wants you free. Truly free. The only way that happens is to be anchored in what can't be shaken: that is not found out there in the world but in the heart. His heart.
I am sure you have read of Legion? the man with the many demons who sets in a cave, naked, cutting himself, and crying?
Mark 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and
clothed, and
in his right mind: and they were afraid. I am convinced sanctification is not in cleaning up what is on the outside by putting on a suit and doing the appropriate steps. Sanctification is when God changes a heart. To be no longer naked but instead clothed, means to put on the Son. "And above all these things put on charity(love), which is the bond of perfectness." (Colossians 3:14).
What does God offers us? "and in his
right mind" is to be given the mind of the Son. (peace, love, joy, patience, mercy, forgiveness.). No bitterness. No poison. You want love above all else? God can and will give you love in ways you never imagined but that is the thing, you are thinking with the mind of a broken man. A broken man can't "think" and "blame" his way out of bondage or else he gets more of the same...he has to ask for God to clothe him and feed him and to give him the mind of Christ (God). Then a new perspective comes: ways higher than man can comprehend on his own.