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Rejoicing With Those Who Rejoice




I have a hard time being happy with those who are happy… OK. Well not all the time… just when I really wish I was in their shoes. But I am constantly reminded that I’m not in their shoes for a reason, and that God knows the reason, even though I sit and shed tears over it.  Somewhere out there is His plan for me, and I have only to follow His will and find it. Well, I guess find it isn’t even the right thing to call it, who are we to “find” it? God knew where it was all along, He was just waiting for us to see it at the moment He has planned for us to see it.

Personally, when it comes to rejoicing, I’d much rather rejoice with those who rejoice; BUT, only when it is for MY better too…  I guess it’s part of that sinful nature we are all born with, the desire to please ourselves. Life would be so much easier without that desire to please one’s self. I commented the other day to our exchange student that “wouldn’t it be so much easier if we all learned lessons the Veggie Tales way? You suddenly ‘realize’ what you’ve been doing wrong, change, and then never make that same mistake again!” but it isn’t that way. No matter how much I wish it that way, it isn’t. We must all learn lessons the hard way, and only the greatly blessed must learn that lesson only one time. Most of us learn that same lesson over and over and over again. Until maybe we kinda get it. 

I guess my prayer for the moment is: that I learn to accept God’s will for my life, and to be able to not only rejoice with those who rejoice, but rejoice while knowing that His plan for me is so much greater then my trifling jealousies.
Your Sister In Christ
~Sara Jean

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