Looking at the world, I sometimes see a dark, corrupt, crooked world. Other times, I look out, and see the beautiful things created by God. All around the world, people are at war with their neighbors. Left and right, everywhere we look, we see parents divorcing, children without direction through the world, hate and stress causing pain all around. All of this is contradicted if you look just a little deeper. How many people, when you ask them what they see in the world, would tell you that they see the grace of God everyday? A woman plagued with cancer, healed, and allowed to live her life. A young mother holding her beautiful smiling little boy. We seldom see the beauty in the dark world.
But this should not be so. Where there is light, there can be no darkness. One tiny candle can illuminate an entire room in darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. But if there is light, there can be no darkness. So how is it that there is so much darkness in our world? Should not the little things all around us cast the darkness into light? The truth is, we have become accustomed to expect the worse. We look for the negativity in life, and it is all we see. We look right past the small joys in life, and automatically see a huge negative picture. I'm guilty of it as well. In reality, we all need to stop being so narcissistic and pessimistic, see what God is doing in our world, and do whatever we can to do HIS work, stop thinking about ourselves, and take on a servants heart. Peace and Love all.
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