So here I am at 1:00 AM listening to the annoying charming of a clock in the livingroom of the home I work in pretty much amped for this shift to be over as I am going home for the 1st time in close to a year today. After work I will pick up my pride and joy and us two men will travel to the land where the water smells of salt. For this I am pumped. To hold my nephew for the first time since he was a half hour old and squishy.... I am pumped. To see my mother and niece from Maine... I am pumped. To play something as a part of the worship band and then see my nephew get dedicated.... I am pumped.
Needless to say I have a lot to be thankful for. Yet somehow it is so easy to find the negative in life and allow myself to get thrown off with annoyances in life that really aren't that big of a deal. Scripture says to "do all things without complaining." Wow! I can honestly say I don't know if I have met anybody who can honestly admit that they follow this all the time. So what do we do about this?
Something that I read tonight spoke to how we with our talents have the ability to do things and manage our lives, jobs, homes, churches, etc... "The reality is this". We do not have the ability to even take our next breath without God's powerful grace in our lives. We convince ourselves that we can "manage" all these areas, but the truth is we actually can do nothing if God does not allow. But I ask myself the question, "Do I want to just manage my life, job, home, church, etc" or do I want to revolutionize these aspects with a supernatural strength that I fully do not understand and cannot attribute to me because it is sooooo amazing? The scary part is that if this is the case I am not in control. I know for me I feel safer when I am in control, but as demonstrated by my tendancy to complain I am ultimately unsatisfied.
What if I allowed the Holy Spirit to lead me though I wouldn't fully know what was going to happen? Could I find a reason to complain? I don't really know the answer here, but I do desire to find this place where I can be without complaint of issues that really don't matter. When all is said and done and my final breath has been drawn my prayer is that it can be said of me that I was grateful for what I had instead of being dissatisfied with what I did not. I want it to be said that in my life big things happend and I could not even tell you how it happened outside of it must have been God because it was so much greater than what my abilities could offer.
Be blessed this weekend my friends and be grateful for the blessings you've been given this day. I hear there is rain coming this weekend. It may dampen your clothes, but don't let it dampen your spirits! God has big plans for you!
Blessings
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