Your Grass is Green
Lately, I have been enjoying a decadent lifestyle. I eat at fine restaurants, fly around on private jets, go on trips that I could only have dreamed of doing just a few short years ago. My family is enjoying the comforts of life, and we have enough to share with others and our small ecclesia. Like most Americans these days, we are quite blessed, materially speaking.
The greatest blessing, though - no matter how good the food tastes, or how "cool" it is to fly around in private jets (and let me tell you, it's COOL) - is that I can look around all of this decadence, appreciate it for what it's worth, and know that if it all left me tomorrow, my life would be of no less value, and my enjoyment of life would be no less.
When Abraham and Lot came to their parting of ways there in the land of Canaan, you notice something about each of them. Lot sees where the grass is greener, and Abraham says that ALL the grass is green.
You may say that Abraham chose to take the bad land. I say that it didn't matter to him one way or the other. Abraham was obviously not a person to be ruined by riches. He was rich, and obviously not ruined. So, he had determined his grass would be green no matter where he was.
Reality is a state of mind. Decide this morning that your grass is going to be green all day. You might be surprised just how green it is.
Also, when things are going well, don't do a disservice to Yahweh by feeling guilty that your grass seems extra green. Enjoy the greenness, but NEVER lose sight of the fact that our material blessings are not what matters. And make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness (some things are more eloquently put in the King James Version, I think...that's one I especially like).
The grass is green everywhere...alternatively, like Paul said, learn to be content in whatever state you find yourself!
Excellent post.