Today we read Job 9-10 and Acts 13-14.
If you want to see the good that God is doing around you, you can. If you want to be negative and constantly come up with something to complain about, that is your choice as well. However, if your cup is half-full instead of half-empty, you will do two things better: keep some friends and give God praise. Nobody likes to be around one who always sees the bad in everything. It is also refreshing to be around one that gives God the glory and the praise.
Paul and Barnabas had a lot to be negative about. People misunderstood them and treated them as gods. Religious leaders misunderstood them and treated them as dogs. A mad crowd threw rocks at Paul's head until they left him for dead. Yet, Paul and Barnabas knew God was at work and they stayed at it. After all of that, notice what they focused on when the church got together in Acts 14.27- And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
That is what the church ought to always focus on...and that is what the Christian ought to always focus on.
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