At a time I don't remember and by a person I cannot recall, I heard insightful words eerily similar to these-
It is easy to believe God is good. It is hard to see how God is good in your own life.
It is so much easier for me to see the goodness God has done in someone else's life. Sometimes I even look at a subject receiving goodness and wonder why they aren't shouting praise to the Lord at that very moment.
And then I realize I am looking a mirror. I am the subject receiving the goodness, yet I fail to recognize it. I have become blind to God moving in my own life. As much as I wish I could say I was the only person suffering from this ailment, I have become quite certain that I am not.
I have several theories as to why I might have become unable to see His goodness in my own life; most of my theories revolve around either pride or insecurity (which in-and-of itself might be pride- who am I to think I am anything beside who the Lord says that I am?)
Regardless of the cause, this is something I have been convicted of lately, and something I am trying to pray through. I need a shift in thinking (is that a term?) and several head-smacks, I am sure.
As long as there is no time like the present, then today I see the goodness God has given to me in His using me to speak life into my friends.
That is a start. :)
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