Entitled To What?
The last few days I have been thinking about writing Part 3 to “The Blessing in the Thorns” series. In my pondering of the various things I wanted to say a word eventually rattled around in my head, entitled. In particular, with the current struggles of having a baby in the house, not having peace and quiet to work, and still being in our original 300 sqft. or so, I realized I was developing a bad and wrong (sinful) attitude. I was irritated that I couldn’t focus on work and was having to pickup more of the domestic duties than I wanted to do. I was fatigued and possibly slipping backwards in my health issues as well.
To summarize, I was ungrateful. I had lost sight of all of the mercy and grace God had shown us in a safe delivery of Ruth, just three short weeks ago (and all his other blessings and provisions which he has given daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly… none of which we deserve). As I’ve been pondering these things I was excited to see one of our neighbor’s, Mr. Sifford, put up a new blog post that put to words some of (and more than) the things I’ve been thinking about with regard to that word.
So while I still hope to get to Part 3 of “The Blessing in the Thorns” series someday, in the meantime I highly recommend you read this post on Entitlement. I hope you read and share it too, because it is a breath of fresh air and something we all need to think about. No guarantees it will be fun though, because the truth about ourselves often isn’t.
So much to think about, thank you….
Oftentimes we do not want to see the ugly in ourselves, but if we are to become better versions, we must.
Thanks for this post, and the entitlement post link. Wow! Lots to think about, and repent of. Thank you again! I deserve nothing from the Most High, nothing but the wages of my sin. Yet I have been considering many of His mercies and graces as entitled things.