If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?
What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving.
People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.
Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions.
Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
The whole paragraph is so beautiful. You might be having your own revelations of Him by now.
But one sentence I'd like to zoom in to is this.
"..to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving."
I got this verse a while back. Might have shared it with a few of you. But here's the reason they call the Bible, "the living word of God". It's alive. I looked into it again and it speaks new stuff to me.
Humans live to get. Get food to eat. Get good scores. Get a job. Get a house. Get a partner. Get friends. Get love. Get everything.
During your birthday, you expect to get some gifts. From your spouse, you expect to get time and attention. Your parents, well.. Time and attention too I guess. From your kids.. respect. A bonus from your company. Praise when you've done something well. That scholarship. That promotion. I don't know. The list never ends.
And when you fail to get, you get disappointed.
And guess what, you will get disappointed, cos it's dirt you are dealing with. Your fellow humans? They are made of dirt. All dirt. Or dust, some might say. Oh so imperfect.
And you expect to get anything from your species? Yeah, you will get something.
Get disappointed. Hurt. And all their sorts.
Get disappointed. Hurt. And all their sorts.
I'm not saying that it always happens that way. Look around, lots of people are happy getting. But us humans are such a weak foundation. It's just a matter of time before we disappoint each other.
Now, friends, all along, while your head and hands are busy trying to get, God has been giving non stop. You just don't see it. Cos you're so preoccupied with that other thing. And really, some stuff you take for granted. Reading this post now? Be grateful. You've got eyes to see. You've got a laptop to view it from. You don't have dyslexia. You internet is working. Someone invented blogger.
But some of you might just be too busy judging my humble inexperienced way of writing that you don't see that you've been having it so good.
Remember when you have that crush? Stalking his or her facebook. Texting him or her everyday. Imagining fairy tale conclusions that could possibly happen. Trying to get him or her to be yours.
While all this while your parents are working their ass off to pay for your school fees, the clothes you wear on your back while you bring her out for lunch, the internet you use to facebook message her, the phone credit you use to text her, the food you eat, the bed you sleep on while thinking of her, yadda yadda yadda.
So, friends.
How about taking a break from trying to get anything? Just stop. And shift that focus of yours to God. And see His goodness, constantly giving to you, abundantly.
And when you just have to respond to what He has already given, life gets really simple.
I give you an apple. What do you do? You smile at me, say thank you, give me lots of love, then eat the apple.
Now change the apple with say, health. Money. Parents. Siblings. Friends. Talents. Job. Ministry. Peace. Joy. Energy. Whatever you can think of.
It's not about getting, mates. It's just responding what has been given to you.
And you know, the bigger God is magnified, the smaller your problems seems to be?
Really. Try it. See Him. And stop looking at yourself, and you good or not good you are. Yeah?
Night!
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