“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”
– Ephesians 3:20
The last time I flew the airline expected me to pay two dollars for a can of Coke. This was after I paid $350 for a ticket. Surely they can afford to give me a can of Coke. Others must have felt the same way because I watched and almost nobody bought one. They do not serve us peanuts anymore and the seats are too close to each other.
It is easy to focus on the negatives of the day. Another way to look at it is that I live half a country away from one of my kids, but I can get into a temperature controlled car and drive to an airport. Once there, people will take my bags and put me on a 500 mile-per-hour airplane and in less than 4 hours deliver me to my children half a continent away. I am tempted to think that we live in an amazing time, but it is not the times that are amazing, but the blessings and opportunities that God has put before us.
We need to stop and think about how great we have things. Some years ago I watched an old western that had a scene which touched me. The story was set on a Colorado farm in the middle of the 1800’s. The farmer and his wife had a teenage girl. A cowboy drifter came through and stayed with them for a while. By and by, the drifter cowboy and the teenage girl fell in love. At the end of the story she married the cowboy and moved 1500 miles away. As they were leaving, the family wept and wished them well. That still happens today, but in those days that meant they probably would never see their daughter again.
I live very few miles from one of my daughters and my son. I live 1300 miles from my other kids. In less than half a day I can see all of them. I can have breakfast with my nearest children and lunch with my other child. Just a few years ago, such a feat was unimaginable. All of us can tell stories like this.
Today, take a few minutes in your prayers and thank him for all the blessings that he has given you that are “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.”
~Lonnie Davis