DON'T JUST FOCUS TO THE BLESSING

Teringat pada sebuah tulisan pada buku Women Evolve by Sarah Jakes yang mengatakan demikian,

“My work is a blessing. God allowed me to borrow His creativity, gifts, and talents to begin my ministry. I wake up some mornings and see the blessing that is my husband. My marriage is a blessing because God extended my husband to me. The same goes for my friends, children and parents. God is so generous toward us that something can even start off a curse and end up a blessing. A blessing is only a blessing as ling as we see it from God.

The moment we begin to see the blessing as our norm, responsibility, or burden, the value begins to descrase because we no longer honor it as coming from God. If you know for a fact that your job is a blessing from God, but your boss tap-dances on your last nerve, I want to challenge you to not let that boss hijack your blessing mentality.”

Menurut saya, ini adalah pengingat yang baik bagi kita. Jangan sampai kita terbiasa dengan berkat-berkat Tuhan. Jangan sampai kita merasa bahwa kita memang layak menerima semuanya itu, baik itu pekerjaan, keuangan, hubungan, dll. Disaat kita mulai terbiasa dan merasa layak, kita mulai menganggap remeh hal-hal yang Tuhan berikan. Tetapi jika kita sadar bahwa semua itu datang dari Tuhan, apapun yang terjadi maka kita bisa terus bersyukur.