Her picky-ness insures that I will always get a better salad then I ordered, as she will begin throwing stuff off the salad as it hits the table. All the stuff she gets rid off, I get. After almost 15 years together she even orders dressing on the side where her dressing does not get on the stuff that will be going on my salad. Typically my salad increases by 30 to 40% in volume because of all the stuff she dumps.
God is the same way. He is always taking my plain and boring life and adding value with things that I love. He does not give me the stuff that He does not want, like my wife, He gives me the stuff that helps me, and He gives it too me abundantly. It does not come with a string of guilt, or an assumption of service either. It comes out of His love and His care.
God wants me to enjoy my life as much as possible, now it may not look exciting from a worldly perspective, but it is meant for my enjoyment. Isn’t that really a true sign of a relationship between two people. How many times do we go - Why is so in so with so in so? The answer is that one person makes the other one happy. No one else may understand it, but each of the involved parties do and that is all that matters.
For too long we have tired to explain to the world how much God loves us. This falls in with what I have talked about before, talking to lost people about ideas and concepts that they do not understand with words that mean nothing to them. How can you explain the creator the world loving a filthy sinner like me. You can not, and no lost person is going to see it until they begin to look for God in their lives and find a God sized hole in it. We must stop trying to explain God and begin rejoicing in God.
Jesus Christ is the lover of my soul, and He wants to give me all I need, Christ is the lover of your soul, and He wants to give you all you need too.
Why do we spend so much time worrying about how we appear in this world? Why do we try to explain our decision making process to a lost world that does not understand the basis of our decisions / mind set to begin with? That does not mean we should not care for the lost, just that we must communicate in ways that make sense to them, not in ways that only the saved would understand.
Everyday, God is abundantly blessing and moving. He is taking the lost and saving them. He is giving them hope. If we are saved, these very things occurred in our life and change our lives forever. These things and changes appear to be less then exciting to those that are lost and have yet to see any problem with their condition.
Until you realize that you have no hope on your own, you can never appreciate the improvements that God brings too your life. Those are the upgrades that He brings too us. They may not seem great too the outsider, like my wife giving me her cucumbers, but they are the things that make our life wonderful and blessed. These are the little small blessings that carry us until the larger blessings become apparent.
The problem is that many times the Devil convinces us that God does not really loving us, or that He is ignoring us. Some how when things are not popping quickly we begin to think God is sleeping or otherwise detained, but in reality God is just training and preparing us for the next round of growth.
I am really trying to learn just how God is preparing me for the future, and appreciate the improvements to my life that He is sending me now. This is in contrast with focusing on what I think He should be doing in my life, or what I think He is planning to do in my life in the future. God is always taking my boring life and adding spice too it and making it more exciting. Sometimes I just have to pay more attention to see those little blessings.
Why do we always find something to complain about? Example - sure God gave me a great large family but my house is too small, instead of appreciating what He has done. I think it is human nature. We are by nature unthankful and selfish, it is the sin nature in us , no more no less. I do not say that as a excuse because we can easily become guilty of saying - "Well I am the way I am because of my fallen nature and there is nothing I can do about it." Sure there is something we can do about it, sure there is, but it requires change and change is the one thing that scares us more then death.
We have to position ourselves where we are enjoying the little blessings where we are ready for the big blessings when they come.
Stay strong, be courageous, and serve God in all things.
