The World Is Yours

I got a message this morning that I felt was really important to share. I'm pretty sure that I heard this before somewhere else but this morning it really sank in and I had one of those lightbulb moments. The message was this: Everything that you don't have in your life is a direct result of your own choices and actions because God only wants good things for us. I'm sure that many of us have asked "why me Lord" and really the answer is becuase of our own free will bad things happen. You can blame anyone else for your lifes short comings or the things that you don't have because the only person that you can control is you. So if you want a better marriage, what are you doing to make it better? You can't keep blaming everything on your spouse because he is a bad husband or doesn't do things as you like them. You married that man just like he married you. You made the choice of being with him til death do you part. What are you doing to make sure you make it that far. Or if you have a job that you don't like; did you take that job for more money thinking that the money would make you happy only to realize that you hate getting up for work every morning? You can't blame it on your rude coworkers or your ignorant boss because you chose that job and you can just as easily make the chose to leave that situation.
This message goes with everything in our lives. Don't blame God for the bad things that only you have created in your own life. Relationships with our children, parents, siblings, and friends are all results of our own creation which means if we helped make it a bad situation we can certainly try our own personal best to make the situation better. Think about how great this message is! If God only wants what best for us and only our own pride, stubbornness and built up walls are stopping us from being where we want to be, then how great it is to know that all we have to do is change the negative thinking and things we've been doing to live the God approved life that He wants for us anyway.

Marinate on that!