Accepting and Thankful YET Unappreciative and Ungrateful
By: Nathlee Grant
Harsh
but can be true; the topic statement above put me in deep thoughts the first
time it arrived on the scene. I was busy doing my work and since I wanted to
think I was trying hard to think of a husband, but since this thought came, i
wasn't worried at least that what I thought, after all I knew I was at place in
my life then where I have accepted all that God had given me and was very much
thankful. Hence my first response was, this doesn't make sense, No one is
really accepting and unappreciative and thankful and ungrateful, so I tried to
put it aside.
But
friends after being confronted by the Holy Spirit I re-examine “ME”, and I was
guilty as charge. Yes I have accepted and was thankful my life situations;
where I am at socially, physically, financially and academically, etc., but was
never appreciative and grateful because my eyes were looking busy searching out
God’s basket. With thoughts I probably weren’t aware of “im ave all a dat an
only gimme this, no sah im mus caan gimme me more”, and I wondered why I was
stuck. I couldn’t move because my eyes were on the wrong thing; God’s basket, I could not make use of
what was in my hands. I didn’t see them, I saw that God could give me a better
Mother, father, community and friends which would have led to a better life.
Smile… What is a better life? It is really in using wisdom with what you have
(the limited and defected resources) that make life worthwhile, being grateful
and appreciating them. Psalms 104: 24 O Lord,
what a variety of things you have made! In
wisdom you have made them all.
I am learning now how to be
appreciative and grateful, and happy as I thought I was, things just look
different now, I mean when I first learnt how to accept and be thankful things
did looked different then and I thought great but now the word is AWESOME. Friends it is amazing the way
I now see and treat all that I have. All I have now, even you…you are precious, I
mean precious like I have never known and seen precious before , in a different
way, I really don’t know how to express it, but everything seems best. . I am no longer concern with why
God give this instead of that, I am so grateful of his thought than his gift. He didn’t have to but he did, and for
me.
Thinking back, I would have accepted and make the best of situations,
but now I am learning that appreciating makes situations BEST; which means I don’t have to make best, I have BEST! Don’t think I am grateful
and appreciative because I am lazy, I am only because I trust in Him who knows
all BEST, whom I believe will supply all
my needs according to the size of my hands. I promised never to concern myself
with those that are in God’s basket, but to be grateful and appreciative of all
that he gives in my hands. He gives the best for the BEST! Me.
With
Fathers’ day just a day behind us, I reflected on a phrase from one of female friend
“I am not acknowledging these sperm donors”. This took me further in reflecting
on a sermon preached some time ago by a beautiful young lady; I believe her
name is Gayle, who preached from the passage Isaiah 49. The first line of verse 2 in particular strike an interest, “He made my words of judgment as sharp as
a sword” and even though Gayle went
into detail then today it stir an interest. 
