Who You'd Be Today

Friday, April 30, 2010
Who You'd be Today
The words from a well known tune, "Who you'd be today", brings me to a thought about what happens to a life that doesn't respond to God's goodness. I realize the song is about a young women that died before her time. However, it can be used to bring you to a different realization. How many times have we walked away from the goodness of God's touch in our life and have lost what God had in store for us. Who would we be today if we had listened to Him. What we could have been had we only responded with generosity. If we would have said yes to His voice. So many circumstances that have played out and instead of looking for God's hand in it, we turn inward to realize that we can not control the world or the people in it. We take our pain and frustration and and allow it to run our lives. Think about it, the clerk that doesn't show kindness because she has been treated so poorly by so many others before you. Perhaps it started in her own family...a lack of respect for her, maybe a loss of dignity, lack of concern for her...there could be a million different ways she was told by others that she wasn't important to this world and than she went off on her own only to find that so many things in her life tell her the same thing. Instead of realizing that that is what the world says, and those people are lacking in their own lives. There have been others that have touched her with kindness and goodness but she quickly dismissed it because it was only a small voice that could only be heard, but, only for a moment. The stronger and louder voices are to loud to overcome. Ah, but it's that moment that she needs to cling to and feed it. Where should she turn? To her father, God. He wants to tell her how important she is and how precious she is no mater what the world says to her...she is loved more than she could ever imagine. That only if she would come to God to be filled instead of filling herself with her own thoughts. A peaceful feeling that comes in a moment of silence or a friend that takes the time to listen to her, it's there that God is speaking. When we open our life up to God we find that peace we all long for...we find our purpose in life and we learn how to deal with the hardships that we all face in one aspect or another. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves and hurting others we look to do good with the sufferings. Oh Father, use my sufferings for your glory. For I love you more than anything and will do whatever you ask.

More to come....