what about my life....

Ok..so what about my life? What about the situation that I'm in, that I used to be in, or that I will be in?? Why did my life turn out this way?

Alot us ask those questions or types thereof. Sometimes we ask them in times of despair, sometimes we look at our present condition and wonder why, and some of us seem to be stuck in it everday wallowing in our pity of why did the Lord give me this life to live?????? I did some random flipping in the Bible and thats how I got to this topic..

"However, each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him"
-1 Corinthians 7:17

Its easy for us to let life get us down, its even easier to stay that way...but did you catch a few big words in that scripture..."must", "live", "situation", "assigned"....there really isn't any room for doubt there. We have no choice than to live in our present situation, God has assigned it to us. So maybe we should be asking, "Lord, how can I best serve you through this?" Whether its a difficult spot in a marriage, a unfavorable job, or just a depression that won't seem to leave, we should ask ourselves...How can I glorify Him? Y0u see if your a Christian then Holy Spirit lives in you...did you catch that? I said if you are a Christian then GOD is living in you. So you see when we glorify God, then we are satisfied within ourselves....we complicate this notion. We think we have to do more, we think that everything must be wonderful, but thats not true. God is glorified in the rough spot of marriage when the partnerships holds firm and removes divorce from their vocabulary...God is glorified through the dead end job when we realize that we work for Him and not someone else...God is glorified in our depressed when we serve him instead of our own self-pity. We give Him glory in these things because we stand...we don't falter even though the time is tough...we stand.

Come on, take a look at your situation...it may not be the best, but there is life everlasting thats waiting! Thats where our minds should be, not on this place, but on the eternal...on the Kingdom. If we could only get our pea-brain minds to stop looking at the junk that this life has to offer and instead begin looking at how God's Kingdom will be affected, then maybe our outlook would begin to change.

So I present this challenge to myself and to the few of you who stumble upon this...look at life, not as your own, but Gods...look at your situation, not as yours, but as a specific place God placed you for His glory...look past whats temporary and look to eternity...and ask yourself, "how can I glorify God today?"