Counting your blessings
Esther 5:11-13
(ESV)
11 And metformin hcl 1 000 mg Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king. 12 Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king. 13 Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
Haman has everything one could wish for. He has riches, power, fame, and honor. And he knows it. Still he fixes his eyes on the one thing he doesn’t have: Mordecai’s fear and respect.
This motivated his life. Nothing is ever enough until he had more. It wasn’t enough that he would make Mordecai pay, he wanted Mordecai’s race to be annihilated.
Reading further in the book of Esther we discover that Haman’s obsession over the one thing he didn’t have eventually caused him to lose everything—even his very life.
Man’s downfall begins when he forsakes all the blessings he has been given and fixes his eyes on the one thing he doesn’t have.
The Bible is filled with accounts of people who fell hard because they focused on the things they didn’t have instead of all their blessings. Esau focused on the stew that he sold his priceless birthright for it. King David had everything he could possibly imagine and yet he coveted Bathsheba.
When we were studying the life of Eve in our Dgroup one afternoon, a very interesting question came up: why did God place the tree of the knowledge of good and evil at the center of the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve would be tempted. But then we realized that we were focusing on the wrong detail. It doesn’t matter where the tree was. The point is God gave Adam and Eve EVERYTHING—literally. They could eat from any tree in the garden (Genesis 2:16-17), yet they focused on the one thing they couldn’t have… And then The Fall.
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Application:
Focusing on side effects of metformin hcl 500mg the things you don’t or can’t have will eventually cause your downfall. Shift your focus and count your blessings.
Prayer:
Thank You, Lord for all the undeserved blessings and favor you have so generously showered upon my life. I know that I will never lack any good thing and that if You saw that I needed more, You will give it in Your way and in Your time. You, O Lord, are more than enough for me. Amen.
