It seems I'm forever hearing how God has three answers to our prayers...those being, yes, no and not yet.
I don't buy it. I believe that's our reasoning mind trying to make God sensible to us. God is not nor will God ever be sensible, reasonable, understandable...It is GOD for God's sake!
We cannot dream what God's answer will be to anything...we cannot fathom the very ways of God. We can only take on faith that his ways are and will be good, beneficial, right, just and merciful...for all concerned.
If, in the end, it does not feel good, beneficial, right, just and merciful, we need to change our mind. For it is never God nor God's ways that are off kilter.
Such a simple act that is required of us. Quite simply we must upgrade our attitude. Divorce ourselves from our own opinion. Acknowledge what is as of God...no matter what is before us. If indeed it is before us, it is of God. There's the hook...seeing what is and not what we perceive it to be.
We must start now in upgrading our attitude, from, say, "Damn...a red light!" to "Thank You for this red light" without trying to justify the red light. It just is. Get grateful.
We need to start this training asap because we never know when something may happen that our reasoning mind is incapable of accepting right off the mark. We'll need all our years of self-discipline to even remember that God's ways are said to be good, beneficial, right, just and merciful...for always and in all ways.
Our answer is always the same: Just say, "Thank You." We get there by upgrading our attitude, which upgrades our problem.
Remember that a pitiful "Why me?" is always an ego trip; a grateful "Why me?" is always of God.
Thank You.
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