Accepting Your Dish Without Grumbling ..
At some point in our lives, we’ve silently wished or prayed things were different — even if it’s just a tiny bit. Most, if not all of us have had questions about our lives, families, siblings, occupation that we’ve never really asked any one other than ourselves, because it’s just safer and maybe wiser.
Say you’re married, and you have this couple next door whose marriage is just the way it is in these telenovelas operas. You suddenly wish things should be the exact way. You don’t know what happens behind closed doors in the homes of such couples. I’m not saying things could be worse or something, I’m just saying you should be appreciative and not wish for the lives of other persons.
No matter how well you’re paid at your present work place, there’s some other place you want. Probably because there’s someone else working there, who you feel dresses better and eats at better restaurants, and once again you wish you weren’t working there, you crave for some other place. We just want the job that’ll show our friends or people who are watching that we have more time in our lives to visit other countries for break.
T.D Jakes thinks that the greatest of all depressions comes when we live and gather our successes just to prove something to someone who isn’t even looking.
Can you believe that?
God did most of His work on creation with no one around to applaud His accomplishments. So He praised Himself. He said, “It was good!” Have you stopped to appreciate what God has allowed you to accomplish, or have you been too busy trying to make an impression on someone? No one paints for the blind or sings for the deaf.
I don’t really know if it’s the same in every home, but there are persons at home who act differently from the rest of everyone at home. Maybe it’s your sibling or a relation. They act like the devil has a home in their hearts, or the devil is completely sitting on their matter.
Then, you notice the siblings in other houses and just wish you could swap, or wish the spirits in other siblings exist in your siblings. You just want the storybook perfect kind of siblings.
In summary, when we look at our share, many of us are not too excited or happy with what’s been given to us.
The night before His crucifixion, seeing what had been laid before Him, Jesus prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke22:42).
The bitter cup wasn’t taken from Jesus —because God’s will matter more than our desire— and for many of us, it won’t be taken either.
Often, God asks us to eat and drink what is set before us. And as we do, we experience peace and are sustained by God the same way Jesus was.
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©Joy Uchenaya, 2019.
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