Be appreciative and grateful

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.