I just came down from the mountains today as I am writing
this (Which is a couple of days before it can be posted, lack of internet here)
and it was such a spectacular view. Everything was beautiful and it just didn’t
look real. It looked like it had to be a painting or picture. It was too
perfect.
We were all just enjoying looking at it when one of my
fellow interns made the comment; “Could you imagine if you couldn’t appreciate
this? Like if you grew up here?” We all nodded and agreed with her, but it got
me thinking. Isn’t that what we do a lot?
How often do we not appreciate what is in front of us? I
know that so often I don’t. I spend so much time outside back at home, and the
beauty around my just passes me by. If I take the time to look, I realize the
woods I live next to is beautiful. The sky full of clouds, or the night time
sky, it’s all incredible. But I am so used to it and never notice.
We are called to be content with the simple things of life.
In 1st Timothy 6:6-8, Paul says, “But
godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into the world
and we cannot take anything out of it. But if we have food and clothing, with
these we will be content.” We are called to be content with having only the
necessities, but we still have so much more than that. Even if we merely have
food, water and shelter, we also have the beauty of creation.
God didn’t have to give us the beauty around us, yet we
still ignore it. We get so used to it that it just flutters around in the back
of our minds, ignored. I guarantee, though, that if it suddenly just
disappeared we would notice.
We always covet what others have and want so much more than
we need, even though God has given us such things that we completely ignore.
The creation around us is more glorious than we can imagine, if we only took
the time to appreciate it.
Just go sometime. Go and look closely at the thing around
you, the things you are so accustomed to. It just might surprise you, if you look at it
with fresh eyes, how beautiful it is, or how much things have changed. But you
have to really look.
Appreciate what God has given you and be content with what
you have, because you have even more than you ever realized.
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