SubscribeWaking up with gratitude and hope
I woke up this morning full of gratitude for the goodness of God in my life. Last week was so busy and full that it forced me out of a lethargy that I had been cuddling for several weeks now. I was already on my way to reveling in a grand funk, when my computer died on me. For about a week, I was without the laptop whose keyboard feels like an extension of my fingers.
I was more attached to it than I realized and felt a little more freed to wallow since I didn’t have it on which to work, write or communicate via emails. While my computer was in the shop, I had use of another laptop but I just whined to myself that writing on it wasn’t the same, and I did have my Blackberry so I didn’t miss any emails. Nevertheless, I felt like I was welcoming an old friend home when my laptop was repaired and returned a couple of Saturdays ago.
The laptop, in reality, was the least serious of the concerns crowding my mind. It received much more worry equity than it deserved. I knew that then and I know it now. But sometimes it is easier to add to our list of woes than it is to subtract from them, to wallow in them rather than to work through them. Whether our problems or big or small, we have to face them with faith and trust in God. What we can do we should do, knowing that God can do all things.
That was brought home again last week while attending a College of Prayer module on revival. The speaker, Richard Owens Roberts, talked over the three days about a litany of ills plaguing society and the church and the need for a God-sent revival. His view of the spiritual and moral decline impacting America today was troubling, almost depressing, but on the last day of the module he pointed us back to hope.
No matter what is going on around us or in us, we should remain full of hope and expectation, Roberts said. “It’s a shame to life with an escapism mentality,” he noted at one point.
Today I am grateful for a God who loves me so much He refuses to allow me to languish in the land of lethargy when there is so much more life to live.
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