Okay, friends. Enter if you dare. I’m about to put my big girl panties on and talk about something with no worries about stepping on toes!
Money is not a problem. Money is a gift.
Food is not a problem. Food is a gift.
Children are not problems. Children are gifts.
Other people are not problems. Human beings are gifts.
Opinions are not problems. Opinions are gifts.
Health, mobility, our bodies, exercise are not problems. They are gifts.
Gifts are to be received with gratitude! Not worry, entitlement, fear/hanging onto them too tightly, or always looking over on someone else’s grass!
We have to stop thinking about what we don’t have (even if that thing is a career or children, really important things!) and consider what we do have.
Sure, change what you can when you can, if your motives are right and God allows, but for Heaven’s sake, we have to learn to steward well this list of things we already have and stop being crybabies! He who is faithful in little will be given the responsibility of more. Take care of your territory and perhaps the Lord will enlarge it, or perhaps He will help you see just how wonderful your little yard is.
Everything and everyone in our lives right now is either because we put it there or God gave it or a mix of the two. We have to take ownership of this, and therefore understand whether it was God or a mistake we have made, He will use that circumstance, or that seeming “lack”, to work out Christlikeness in us. This is His promise and it is a good promise! Whatever the cause of what you have or don’t have, let it go, and move forward in wisdom where you are today.
