I caught myself yesterday glorifying the bad things,
the situations, the things I have been suffering
Woe is me
Telling someone all the terrible things I had suffered during a situation
I wasn’t wrong, I had suffered a lot of difficulties
I am going through a trial and many circumstances are hard
and trying and I’m plain tired
What I failed to mention is that, every step of the way,
every single circumstance, every obstacle within the trial,
God has worked it out
So there God sat on the sideline
While I focused on myself and forced the listener to focus on me
and how terrible my situation was
I didn’t mention that Jesus had sent people to help me,
that I could see His hand in the trial
and things were smoothing out right before my eyes
Who is this that the wind and the seas obey Him?
Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the soon coming King, that’s Who
I might or might not have an another opportunity to glorify Him
to those I glorified myself to
Poor me
Woe is me for I am ruined
Misery loves company
It’s best to keep my eyes on Jesus and off of myself
That’s where the victory is
Rise above the flesh, I tell myself, keep your eyes on what He has done,
what He is doing and what He will do
He is God after all, He is able and willing to do His purpose in my life
He created this world and set the boundaries of the sea
If I have to walk farther and longer than I want to sometimes,
that doesn’t change who He is
Nobody wants to hear me whine
about how long and how hard my walk was anyway,
much better to keep the focus on God
and the marvelous things He is doing
The blessings are always there
It’s up to us to find them and focus on them
Scriptural References:
But the men marvelled, saying,
What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
Matthew 8:27
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things.
Philippians 4:8
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 26:3
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:1
Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high,
because he hath known my name.
Psalm 91:14
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord:
and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Jonah 2:7
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;
who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2