“So I saw that there
is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his
lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him.”
What is the difference between a thermostat and a thermometer?
One set the temperature, and the other just reads it.
Another thought on work. If we are little more than beasts
of burden, let us at least rejoice in what we have. The roof above your head,
the food in your stomach, the clothes on your back, the shoes on your feet. As
Pollyanna (or perhaps today, as Unikitty) as it sounds, think about what you do
have, not what you do not have.
If you have gotten to choose what to eat today, you are doing
better than a lot of people throughout the world. If you get your water from a
tap, and it doesn’t put you on a sick bed, you should be very thankful. Did you
take a Tylenol? Someone, somewhere, would give you a king’s ransom for one if
they could.
Beyond this though, you have
work to do. Since the later part of the last decade, this is far from a given. If
you have a place, a function, you have something to rejoice in.
You cannot see the future. Kevin DeYoung aptly said that “Worry
is trying to live tomorrow before it happens.” So instead of trying to live in
tomorrow, or perhaps in yesterday, live in today. Be where you are, and be
joyful for however long you have. One day you will return to the dust from
whence you came.
In the meantime, if you choose joy, you might just reset the
temperature.
Try it along with me today.
No comments:
Post a Comment