Recognize Your Blesssings

Have you ever noticed that, often times, the things we spend the most time complaining about are the very things we asked (sometimes begged) God for? This reality hit me hard today. As you know, today was the last day of my first semester of law school, and as you are probably also aware of, I spent most of the last four months complaining about hard it was to go to law school with all these kids, and how busy I was, and how I might quit, etc., etc., etc.. But God confronted me today. He said, “Morgan, remember this past summer? Remember your prayers back then? You would pray things like, ‘Oh Lord, please help me pass this LSAT, Oh Lord, please let me get an acceptance letter in the mail.’ Well, I did those things, you got what you wanted, and then you complained.” OUCH, right?  Then I started looking at other things in my life and recognized this pattern: God will answer my prayer, I will receive what I asked for, and then I will gripe about it. For example, my kids, my car, my husband, Law School.  Satan is tricky, and I let him rob a lot of my joy the past four months when I should have been praising the Lord for an answered prayer. Satan, I am on to you, and don’t plan on letting you do this to me again!