MrCleveland wrote:
He has me wait longer than everyone else, he made me live in a city called Cleveland, he made me autistic, he won't let me have a girlfriend, he won't let me get a car, and I feel he made me limited.
Why has my own God decided to make me wait and just say "NO" everyday?
When I feel pretty short on God's favor, I fine it's possible to recover my gratitude by "zooming-out" from myself and my own circumstances for a moment, and evaluating certain other people's lives -- people who would surely tell me that, compared to
their lives, God blesses me continually, even in times when I'm sure He is not. A lot of times, I can't really stop complaining to myself about my life until I stop and think about paraplegics, or people with chronic illnesses, etc. That often causes me to see my life in better perspective.
Remember that God likes to impart wisdom to people -- and the best instructor and character-builder is often hard times. God can
always give me or you a harder time in life, if we demonstrate that we don't yet have the wisdom to appreciate the blessings He already is bestowing upon us presently, so I figure I might as well stay as humble as I can, and find and express genuine gratitude -- because He could always put me on that fast track to wisdom in the form of life getting significantly worse for a while. I'd rather find the wisdom to appreciate His blessings
now, than prove myself a remedial student in life and have to repeat a course. Sometimes His grace
is sufficient for us (2 Cor 12:9), even though it seems otherwise.