Thorns

Thorns plague us all but God will never give us a thorn that contradicts his word and admonition as to us living a godly life.  For instance, my weight is a thorn and has been my entire life.  Though I would like to be a few pounds lighter, by his grace; which is sufficient, I learned how to become the best woman that I can be.  For some it may be because they are of a darker complexion or because you were mixed and didn’t know whether you were to gravitate to the white or the black side of your family; or perhaps you grew up in poverty and all you have ever seen was impoverished people.  Those are the kinds of thorns that create in you a character and define who you are; and the kind of thorns that you can live with.  God will not give you a thorn of alcoholism, drug abuse, pornography addiction of any kind and the like.  Yes… you may have come through either of those but God did not put that kind of weight on you and expect you to live with it – “Oh this is my lot in life to be a crack-head”.  God is a good God and he wants what is best for us; and it that includes a thorn or two to bring us into the knowing that his grace is sufficient then so be it, but your choice to live any kind of way and blame God is not the right frame of mind to have when it comes to why this or that has befallen us.