It’s easy to be grateful when we’re in good shape, but what if things turn around 180 degrees: distress, trouble, trouble, suffering, crisis, illness, failure, bankruptcy experienced, can we still give thanks to God?
Or maybe we will act like Job’s wife , who when afflicted with problems and sufferings, urged her husband to deny God: “Do you still persevere in your piety Curse your God and die!”
In living this life, the journey we take is not always smooth and calm, sometimes the ship of our life has to experience the blows of waves, hurricanes, even the brunt of big and fierce waves.
The world’s people also realize that life is like a spinning wheel: sometimes up, sometimes down, there are joys and there are sorrows. Job said to his wife, “Are we willing to receive the good from God, but not accept the bad?”
Often we demand God to do what we want, so that when something happens that is not what we want we are immediately angry and disappointed with God. When in heavy struggles our faith often falters, then we start to take our own path that we think is right, even though it is not necessarily true and in accordance with God’s will.
Job learned to keep positive thinking, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, naked also I will return to it. The Lord who gave, the Lord who took, praise the name of the Lord!” Learn to be grateful in all circumstances.
If right now we are going through bad things, stop complaining and nagging. Never open an opening for evil to rob us of our peace. Believe that even in a bad situation God is able to turn for good for us:
“I will make rivers spring up on bare hills, and make springs of water boast in the midst of the plains; I will make the desert into ponds. and emits water from dry land.” God always has a plan in every situation, so stay grateful.
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐫 