Life

How many times have I or anyone mumbled to ourselves "that's not fair"? Probably more times than we want to admit. Life isn't fair - there will always be someone who has the bigger house, the "perfect marriage", the nice stuff, the appearance of having everything together, the always having the neat homemade gift for people, not a worry in the world - as we all know there will always be someone who appears to be "better off" then us. But isn't that where the issue is? We are too busy out there comparing our lives, our real lives, our lived in messy house, our imperfect marriage, our wild kids to other people's highlight moments. Think about it - you are scrolling though Instagram/Twitter/Facebook and you see all the photos, check-ins and status and think "why don't I have that?" And if you saying you don't, we'll then you aren't being honest with yourself.
When we compare ourselves to others we will never be content. We will never be grateful for what we have. But what we don't realize is those same people you are envying are doing the same thing with your highlight reel or someone else's.
It's so easy to get caught up in the things of this world and totally forget the One that created it, the One that allowed you to wake up today. We all need to stop, look around and appreciate what we have. We need to look to God and thank Him for today, for this moment and the precious things that money can't buy that He had blessed us with.
Life won't always be fair but when we look at life thru Gods eyes, it won't matter if its fair or not because we will look to Him for our satisfaction.


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Be Quiet and Trust

Why is it that we can trust someone who we know will let us down over and over again but yet not trust the One that will never let us down? Tonight as I read, Job 38-39 this is the exact question that went through my mind. Many of us will never experience the circumstances that Job did but we all have times where we want to question God. Instead we need to be asking God what He wants to teach us, show us or heaven forbid what He wants to change in us. For nothing happens without God allowing it to be so. For see God sees the finished product while we only see right now. Maybe the circumstance that you so wish would change won't ever change and that's okay. It's hard to understand but it's not our place to understand. We just have to trust Him fully and remember He doesn't allow anything to happen that first doesn't come through Him. For Job lost everything and had no idea that God allowed it all to happen to Job so that He could get the glory. 

We just need to learn to be quiet and trust. Trust the One that "laid the foundations of the earth". Trust the One that told the sea "This far you may come, but no farther, and here your proud waves must stop".  Have faith in the unseen God. Have faith and trust He has everything under control. We have to give up our wants/needs/desires and follow Him. We have to go against the world and sometimes against our own plans. 

We have to shut up and trust Him.