BE APPRECIATIVE

February 18, 2014

Appreciation is vital. Though, many of us have been programmed to only see the bad side of life, however, an African proverb says that if a slave is appreciative for a gift given to him, he would get another.

This was what Jesus demonstrated in the book of Matt 14. Bible says that many people followed Him into the desert. Towards the evening, Jesus knew that these people would be hungry so He asked the disciples to get them what to eat. When Jesus heard that what was available was just five loaves of bread and two fishes, He didn’t fidget, He didn’t complain, He didn’t murmur, Bible says, He took the bread and the fishes, gave thanks and asked the disciples to share.

It remains a mystery till today how the bread and fishes were enough to feed five thousand men excluding women and children with twelve baskets full left. However, one clear thing is that, appreciation is one of the secrets of multiplication. Someone said whatever you don’t appreciate depreciates. I do not find it hard to know someone who would appreciate God from the way the person appreciates his/her fellow men. When a man appreciates his wife’s dress, the woman feels good and the man is assured of good meal throughout that day.

I know things are not going on as expected, but if you look at it very well; there are still things to appreciate God for. Bible says in all things give thanks. When you thank God for that small job, He will open the door for a bigger one. Jesus demonstrated this twice when He used seven loaves and some pieces of fish to feed another four thousand men in Matt 15.

You can never over appreciate God; some are dead; some have permanent beds in the hospital; some are going about eating from waste bins; why don’t you just go ahead and appreciate the keeper of life for not allowing the enemies make a mess of your life.

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