"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow,
nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are
you not worth much more than they?” Matthew 6:26 (NASB)
Being a
twenty-two year old, working as a manager at a Pizza Hut, and struggling with
payments on bills, you can easily see I’m not really living what most would
call the “American Dream”. For almost a year now I have been saving up to get
a new laptop. It drives me insane how close I have gotten only for a car to
break down or some other random circumstance that has forced me to break my
metaphorical piggy bank and lose all of my fun funds. I have a hard time not
getting frustrated with my circumstances, but that is an awful outlook on
things isn't it? (I actually wrote this a while back and now have my laptop,
which is such a blessing. I'm very thankful to be able to use it to write update this post right now! Funny how it works too look back).
Right now you might be thinking of some item
that your piggy bank is specifically for and you’re just feeling so empty
because you lack this item in your life. I have watched people on social media
complain about being broke. That is a sad statement. I’m writing this on a
great computer and you are reading this on some form of electronic device. You
and I are far from poverty. In fact, we’re beyond blessed. According to
Poverty.com about twenty-one thousand people die a day from hunger or
hunger-related causes. Twenty-one thousand. I chose to write today to remind
all of us of what we should be thankful for and I chose the verse so that we
can remember who blessed us with these wonderful things. I genuinely hope that
our statuses or statements of lament over not having the new iPhone will turn
to praise and thanks that we even have food to eat; in fact, we are much more important than the birds and God takes care of them pretty dang well. Don’t allow your life to be
dictated by stuff, but rather be happy with what you've been given already.
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