Many times, people lament and say, “Why me?” and it is in regards to a tough situation, going through a rough patch, “bad things happening to good people”…but in my case, I want to know WHY AM I SO BLESSED?
Why was I born in the United States? Why am I well fed? Why do I have “decent” healthcare? Why do I have access to an education? Why do I have religious freedom? WHY, GOD? WHY, ME? I’m so grateful but it’s just so mind-boggling. You’ve probably hear the saying, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”..???…I certainly view these as gifts, don’t you? “…From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” -Luke 12:48
“God is no respecter of persons”, right?…He loves ALL his children…He doesn’t love ME more than His other children, so WHY do I have so much when others have so little?
I have friends that started a program called No Hungry Children and they feed children in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya; but you don’t have to travel to another continent to see hunger and deprivation….there are children right down the road from my home in Acworth, GA/USA that probably wish it WEREN’T summer break right now. At least when they go to school, they know that they will get to eat a meal that day; many churches help prepare bag lunches for hundreds of children each day during the summer months and deliver them to disadvantaged children. MY kids, on the other hand, have three meals a day and snacks, too and still act as though they are starving in between meals!!
“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”-Proverbs 19:21…I’m so glad I don’t have to know it all and that He is leading me down the correct path.
“But who are you, O man, to talk back to God?”-Romans 9:20 He is omniscient….all knowing…not me….not you…“Trust in the Lord, with all your heart and lean not on your OWN understanding”-Proverbs 3:5…I can have questions, I can be unsure of things, I can even get angry at God…He is ok with that…but look to HIM….not the world.
Joshua 24:24 says, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”….therefore, I will be kind, I will do for others, I will teach my children to be compassionate and I pray that we will continue to be “the hands and feet of Jesus.”
.I have so much to be thankful for and I will always be ETERNALLY grateful to Him…“Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!”-AMEN
Passions, Pitfalls and Plenty of Prayer 
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