Better

     Do you ever feel that things just cannot get any worse?  There have been times when my wife and I are watching the evening news and just look at each other thinking: “It can’t get any worse that what is happening now!”  Then when we wake up in the morning and turn on the morning news!  Things have gotten worse!

     Will things ever get better?  Is it even worth thinking that things are going to get better or should we merely view our present situation as the “new normal”? 

     In actuality, our hoping that things will get better usually means that we don’t want things to be as bad as they currently are.  We tell ourselves at times that when we wake up tomorrow, things will be better!  Again, what we are actually telling ourselves is that we don’t want things to continue as they presently are.

     Unfortunately, the problem is that we are looking in the wrong place in order to make things better.  Let me illustrate:  This will no doubt make more sense to the men who may be reading this, but have you ever been working on some project and what you really need at the moment is a hammer.  You look around and you can’t find one.  So, you take the pipe wrench lying on the floor and begin to use the side as a hammer to get that nail into the board. 

     You know the solution to your problem, but instead of using the proper tool for the job you try to make it work with whatever is available!  Now I also know that there are similar situations where you ladies have done something very much the same!

     This is the problem we have with trying to make things better.  We’re looking in the wrong places for solutions.  We are thereby trying to fix our own problems with whatever we have available!

     Now, what is going to happen if we look toward the correct source for solutions?  We can improve our situation; however, we will not be able to completely remove all the obstacles that are before us.  So, until such time as this occurs, we must make the best of our current situation.  We must patiently wait until the time has come for our Creator to change things himself.

     What I mean is this:  Our Creator has made a very interesting promise to us as recorded in his word, the bible.  (Jeremiah 29:11) “‘For I well know the thoughts that I am thinking toward you,’ declares Jehovah, ‘thoughts of peace, and not of calamity, to give you a future and a hope.”

     And yet most of us have failed to seek this source of peace and hope.  We would rather continue to flounder around with whatever we can find available and see if we can “fix” the situation on our own.  We continue to do these things even when we can see that they are against our own best interests!  Why do we spend our lives this way?  Why do we continue to bring sorry and pain within our lives?  In some cases, why do we actually refuse to even give consideration to the possibility that this wonderful source of peace and hope is even available to us?  In general, the answer to these and other similar questions is simple:  We’re Only Human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER 

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Almost remember:  Once you hit bottom,

you can only go up!"