Allowed

“Don’t miss what is complaining about what isn’t.”

Loren Thornburg

You have been given much. Yet, often the much we are focused on are the things we wish were different. There is nothing wrong with wishing things to be different as long as we are also enjoying how it is now. We were created with an inclination towards hope. It’s part of our nature to long for more. So then, the trick to preserving hope while contently remaining in a place where it is yet to be seen is by seeing what is true. For it’s true that you have already been given many things. If we saw the ways we have been given much before we saw the ways we haven’t been given enough then our perspective couldn’t help but change. Don’t forget we are not entitled to anything, but it has been allowed into our lives. Although many hard things have been allowed into your life, so have many great things...don’t miss them.

“God’s works are so great, worth a lifetime of study-endless enjoyment! Splendor and beauty mark his craft; His generosity never gives out.”

Psalm 111 2-3 Message

I awoke one morning annoyed I hadn’t slept well. Knowing all things pass through the hands of God I was frustrated He had allowed yet another night of little sleep for it seemed that would be of great benefit to me. Yet, what God quickly showed me was all the other things that He had also allowed. I began recounting all the ways God has provided for me. Suddenly my complaints and frustrations disappeared in the wealth of provision that I was not entitled to, but had been allowed. Allowed means to give permission and make provision for and we have been permitted much and provided for greatly. God is immensely and extravagantly generous. We deserve nothing and yet God is so great and so generous that He permits us to have more than we could imagine. He is marked by splendor and beauty if you will see as He sees. God’s works are so great! Don’t miss the great He has allowed because you got focused on what you wish He hadn’t allowed.