too blessed to complain

we have been so blessed by God. 

i know you've probably heard that before but have you actually thought of all the blessings we have that some people don't? and then have you actually thanked God for giving you all those blessings?

first of all, we can be so grateful for the fact that we woke up today. we're healthy. we don't have a ton of medical problems. we're alive and breathing.

america is the greatest country in the world. even though we have many problems, we are still living in such a great country. we have so much freedom yet most of the time, we just see the bad things. not because there's so much bad covering the good, but because that is what we're looking for.

a test was taken to see which country had the most drinkable, clean water. the country with the second largest amount of drinkable water was france with 43%.

the first was of course america but the percentage of drinkable water may shock you. 98%. woah. that's a crazy huge difference. and that's kinda hard to comprehend. how some countries have so little of just a basic necessity.

now what about our education or jobs? there are some people who would be overwhelmed with happiness to receive a text book yet we don't want to go to our boring class. we have so many job opportunities that almost anyone could easily get a job but some people don't have any way to provide for their family.

we are so rich. no matter who you are. even though you may not have a mansion and get a brand new pair of shoes every week, we have so much money that some people could only imagine.

we have so much food. while some people are starving, we have problems with obesity. we are so blessed to be able to just go to any grocery store and get a meal for five dollars and there is an abundance of restaurants all around us.

we are blessed with so much technology and items that help us or entertain us.

we have houses to live in while some people have a one room shack if they're lucky.

but hold on... if we're so blessed than why do we complain much? it amazes me that some people in third world countries and such don't even have basic necessities such as water, food, clothing,or a lodging place yet they have such a grateful spirit. crazy fact: more people in the old testament were killed from complaining than from other sins. woah

here in texas, we had been needing rain because it was so dry and it was something some people had complained about. God sends the rain for twenty or more days straight and most people were complaining about all the rain. wait.. weren't we just complaining about how we needed rain and when God sends an abundance we complain about how we had too much rain? this seems like deja vu to me. i mean didn't the israelites complain about not having something and when God provided it, they went right back to complaining about something else? oh yeah.. that was right before he sent them into the wilderness for forty years because of all the complaining.

we need to try to stop the complaining. just try to not complain for a week and see how it changes you. there are just so many blessings that surround us for us to be thankful for. let's be too busy thanking God that we don't have time to complain.