Where’s my blessings?

Recently, I’ve been talking a lot about trusting God through the hard times. I’ve said it’s important to fight for your life and love. Which is true, but maybe you’re just plain tired. Maybe you’re at the end of yourself and you’re thinking, “Where is my blessing at?”

“I’m a good person.”

“I’ve done everything right.”

“Why is everything going wrong?”

Is that you? Are you scared and hungry for more, more goodness, more sweetness. Something that is easy to catch.

I’ve been listening to Elevation church’s Holly and Steven Furtick. If you haven’t listened to their sermons about favor you HAVE to listen to them. Anyway, Holly talked about fake favor.

Fake favor looks good on paper. You look good in real life. But it’s not real. Sometimes I think we strive to have blessings that don’t actually benefit us. Sometimes we want blessings that are temporary fixes and not actually soul reaching.

I could win a million dollars, but I haven’t worked for it so I won’t know the true value of it. It’s like giving a dog a dog bone. You think it will keep them distracted for a while but depending on the size (of dog and bone) they could eat it up in just a few minutes.

The people who win millions of dollars usually end up spending all of it in a short time. They don’t realize the true value of it. If they put it in the bank for a year and didn’t touch it, they’d get thousands of dollars of interest that they could live on or give to their family or friends. Which, it is their money and they can do what they want, but sometimes our temporary needs overshadow our spiritual needs.

Obviously, take care of your needs and family, but sometimes we look for surface level blessings. God has a bigger blessing for you. It’s real and it’s big. It’s not a temporary thing. It’ll be good and it will be yours.

Another example is wanting a boyfriend or girlfriend because you’re lonely and you want to be married. Sometimes we want these things and were like, “God if you just give me a boyfriend right now, then all my problems will go away!”

Hmm, if you don’t have the right mindset then you’re still going to be lonely. You’re still going to have the same hurts and bruises if you don’t fix what is actually making you lonely. God can fill your loneliness.

But I’m getting carried away. The point is sometimes you want something but that isn’t actually the blessing God has for you. God has something better in mind for you.

God will take care of you. Don’t worry and don’t be afraid because God will provide. God is good and he is kind. He doesn’t hurt you or fight you just to give you something good. When the bad things happen God is there to help you.

If you start to lose hope that your blessings aren’t coming or they have stopped, take a minute and re-evaluate your life. Look for the blessings where you might not have looked before. When you look with a heart of gratitude, you start to see good things everywhere.