Do you ever think someone else’s life is better than yours? That they have been given a better ministry? Better talents? Better goodies? Do they have green grass? Are you sure?
How about better problems? Do you think their problems are easier than yours?
As humans, we are prone to compare ourselves to others, leading, often, to envy or covetness.
We are more apt to compare what we see as blessings, though, than compare our problems to the problems of others.
Do you really want his or her physical problems rather than your own? Do you know the family, financial, or other problems they face? Do you want those problems?
God has given us our own grass for a reason
We have been given our blessings, including our problems, for a reason. God is at work in us—right now—to want to do His will, and to perform His will. He will continue His work in us until we are presented by Christ to the Father, holy and blameless.
It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13)
I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)
[Christ will] present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— (Colossians 1:22)
Our Green Grass
You and I have been given work to do in this life. In our own fields. However much green grass we have.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
Whether or not my grass seems green to me, it is my grass. It is the field my Father has given me. I have work to do, given to me by the Father. Lord, help me get with it.
