If you had to make a list of things you do not like and put it in order of the things you dislike the most at the top and dislike a bit less toward the bottom what would it look like? There are a good many things I do not like, but you might want to give this some thought. You see I do not like mosquitos, and find them very annoying but a yellow jacket or big red wasp is higher on the list. Both of these I am likey to face this summer. But even higher on the list would be a copperhead. I had not seen one on my property till last year, but I met him one afternoon and we did not get along at all. There are some people I do not like, but I always ask the Lord to help me love them. (Bless their hearts.)
As I thought about this for a while, the top of the list items that I do not like are not really people, or tangible things, but ideas, and problems I really can't do anything about changing. Things like hate, evil, prejudice, revenge and jealously. Two things that would surely be near the top for me would be Alzheimer's disease, and Heart disease. These things sort of suck the life out of you especially when compared to a mosquito.
The truth is the things that surface to the top of list we don't like are the things of the moment. Whatever is happening right now seems too often what we don't. like the most. There is a great Bible verse for this....
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18 ESV
The Apostle Paul knew that better times are coming for all of us who know Christ as Savior. So keep this thought in mind, I like to think this is an original thought of mine but I probably heard it somewhere.
It is all going to be OK at the end... So if it is NOT OK now ... do not worry it is not the END.
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