My Heart in His Hand

“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.”

Just about everyone’s heard the truth of those words, yet I dare to pose a variable of this famous line: “You don’t realize what you didn’t have until you’ve experienced something better.”

Have you ever realized that you can enjoy something to the highest degree, until you experience something better? Many have demeaned this nagging fact as a case of discontentment and therefore wrong. For some reason though, I find it to be very beneficial to both character and conduct. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it can be taken out of hand either way, but just bear with me…

We’ve become much too complacent in our day and age. Everything goes. Everything’s good. We, as followers of Christ have both forgotten that there’s a world around us as well as suffering Christian’s in our midst. Many times we forget about one or the other, and shamefully sometimes both. Some are so stuck in their “Christian circle”, they forget that there’s an outside world. Other’s are so caught up in ministering to the outside world, that they forget their many Christian brothers and sisters that are in need.

Yet, which ever ministry we’ve taken, (hopefully both) we’re still content with our small and confined boundries. Daddy’s always said, “Go big or go home.” If only we could truly learn it! In some way we get involved in a ministry and then get the mindset that because we’re working for God by performing our little Christian duties, all’s good. Number one, it’s not all good if we’re doing it for ourselves in any way, but the pressing question is: to what extent are you “doing your duty”?

Is it so shocking to learn that our duty is defined by our ablility?

Be it nothing, lest given with everything!

Are we content with our very small realm, or are we constantly reaching out, constantly striving for bigger and better?

I recently read “The Prayer of Jabez”. Good book if taken with a grain of salt. The prayer could easily be made into simply another godly ritual, and I believe this has occured by a whole lot more than one person, but regardless, it contains some rewarding insight along this same line. We are too placid. It is only to the very best of our ability that duty can every be fulfilled.