By Jeremy White
God has a wonderful way of teaching us lessons in the simplest of ways. My wife and I drink a ton of water and use our Brita Filter more than anything else in our house. I was getting the filter out of the fridge a couple of weeks ago when the lid fell off, hit the floor and broke the flapper. This incident put me in a bad mood for several minutes. My wife knew I was frustrated and after some time asked if I was still upset that the flapper had broke, which I embarrassingly admitted that I was. I couldn’t believe how upset I got over a broken flapper and how I had to use two hands to pour my water instead of one now. There are people around the world that would love to have clean drinking water whenever they wanted and yet I get hung up on a broken flapper. Now when I pour water I am reminded about being grateful, which is lesson 1.
Lesson 2 was the new cell phone I recently got in, which I kept the protective plastic layer on. I can be hard on phones whether dropping or scratching them so thought I would try and leave it on as long as possible. I had the plastic film on the phone for several weeks until it started to unravel a bit, so I took it off. The next day I was moving some dead branches from my backyard through the side fence to the curb. I was squeezing through the fence with a large pile of branches when I heard a big scratch. Wondering what the sound was, I look and saw that I had rubbed my phone that was clipped to my belt across the brick of my house. This mistake caused a scratch the size of
Unfortunately, the scratched cell phone put me in a bad mood all the way through dinner, but also made me realize how much I love the material things of this world. Now every time I look at my cell phone I see a big scratch, but am reminded to keep my eyes fixed on the eternal, which was lesson 2. What simple lessons is God trying to teach you right now and are you really learning them? I am amazed at how God can use things like a broken flapper and a scratched cell phone to teach me so much. May God give you a reminder today of what He wants you to learn.
1 comment:
Bro, do I ever know about scratched cell phones. On my last one, a friend of mine made fun of me because I tried the "leaving the protective film on" thing... for about 6 weeks. I think I scratched it the day I finally took the film off. With my current phone, it has crack - not a scratch - that got there when I dropped it on day 2 of being in my possession. I figure it's a tool, not a trophy.
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