I had recently sent an email to a friend of mine because I just wanted to encourage her for no reason at all. I love others to be encouraged to live with hope, joy, and love. So I was thinking of what to send her and my fingers just typed in the subject box “Blessings in Disguise”. Now as a writer, I tend to write about things I don’t know yet. I start with a word, work to a sentence, then develop a character and come up with a purpose for each paragraph. So I was used to writing unexpected things, but I didn’t want to write the wrong thing down, so I just waited and reflected on what that meant before I started typing up my email. This is an explanation of what I developed:
When negative things happen in our lives,
we tend to look through a negative lens
and be negatively influenced by all the occurrences
of that day.
We ponder on the actions of others
and turn them into hateful acts
of mockery.
However, they are not.
But we are blinded.
Blinded with shards of negative glass
showing us all negative things.
A smile
turning into a disgusted look.
A compliment,
turning into mockery.
What shall we believe?
The compliment,
or the mock?
We cannot break through
and see clearly
what we are supposed to see.
Human nature has fallen hard.
So hard that it wants to linger in the negatives
and struggles to find positives.
It somehow wants to feel anger more than peace,
hate more than love,
sadness more than happiness.
Then when it gets what it wants,
it weeps.
It weeps for love, joy, and peace.
What we need to do,
is push away all our desires of feeling anger,
put our focus on being in the likeness of our God
and break the negative lens that we’re looking through.
It is a hard task and takes a lot of work
maybe even practice,
but look at your values again.
I value love, joy, and hope.
But when I am using my negative lens,
I push away my values.
I tell them that they don’t matter to me anymore.
And if we continue looking through the lens,
then we are showing God that his Word is not useful.
God has given us His Word to not only show us the truth,
but to offer us solutions to our struggles.
The greatest help we can receive
in order to push away the negative lens
and look through the positive lens
is realizing and recognizing our blessings in disguise.
When we are feeling negative and the
world seems to be influencing those feelings
instead of providing a remedy,
we hardly recognize
our greatest blessings:
our blessings in disguise.
One of these blessings is life.
You are breathing as you read this post.
God has provided you life for a reason,
so do not forget its importance.
The greatest blessing is having a God
who loves you.
Although, you may not know it,
it’s very true.
To be loved by your own creator.
Enough even that he gave his life for your salvation.
Another is your senses.
I can have assurance that all who are reading this
have the ability to see.
To be able to witness the majesty and glory of
God in his creation.
Other blessings may be
food, shelter, a family, warmth.
Without all these, or some of these,
you would not be able to experience life and enjoy life
in such great quality.
You may not be the most popular,
or the best at different things,
but you are precious and you have life.
I encourage you to acknowledge the importance of these blessings.
For when you are looking through
the wrong lens,
you will remember the blessings in disguise.
They will no longer be in disguise anymore
for you gave them quality and importance.
