The other day I was opening a granola bar and it went flying. I'm not really sure how it happened but the wrapper flew out of my hands and so did the bar. They landed a couple of feet apart and as usual my dog, Jackson, was at my feet. He ran straight to the wrapper and sniffed it and you could just see the look in his eyes he was longing for the bar. I stood for a couple of seconds astonished that he was sniffing the wrapper and not devouring the bar. Then I bent down picked up the bar and the wrapper and it wasn't until then that Jackson realized that the bar had been there beside him the whole time.
My goodness, how similar are we to my dog? We get so caught up wishing and thinking of the things or relationships that we wish we had that we don't take time to look up and see the blessings that are right before our face. And sometimes, sadly the only time we notice the blessings that God has given us are when they are being taken away.
It is so easy to look around at the people in our lives and see all the good that they have be it jobs, relationships, health or materials. It is so easy to then examine our own lives and see the things we don't have or think about what we wish we had. We then are much like my dog sniffing the empty wrapper wishing that that it contained all the things we don't have all the while the blessings that God has bestowed upon us are 2 feet away being ignored.
We serve a generous God oh how it pleases Him to see us using our blessings, being grateful for our blessings and expanding His Kingdom with our blessings. May we all take a couple steps back and savor all that God has given us. I promise you no matter the hardships you are experiencing the blessings you will see in your life are bountiful!
