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This Upside-Down World

“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” The lesson implicit in this aphorism, that we should be satisfied with what we have, discounts the possibilities that you are standing in quite a barren patch indeed, or that the other grass IS greener, or perhaps that a life represented by greener pastures is not just our desire but a necessity.

But human beings have a problem with sorting out desires and necessities. It is always worthwhile, for instance, to pray for discernment so that we might ask God for what we need, not what we want. Spiritual maturity is when we know He will answer along those lines anyway: but we must keep our priorities straight. We should look less to the pastures over the fence and over the horizon, and more to the One who nurtures those pastures.

Our culture (what the Book of Common Prayer calls “the world, the flesh, and the devil”) continually distorts this understanding. The tendencies of our natures to be dissatisfied with what we have, combined with the spirit of the age that tells us that human devices ultimately will be sufficient to satisfy every human yearning, add up to an upside-down world. Upside-down values, upside-down actions, upside-down results.

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  • lambsev

    Proverbs 15:17
 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

    Proverbs 16:8 
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
    Proverbs 17:1
 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

  • Evermyrtle

    Excellent post. It seems tht the world today literally feeds on hate and jealousy. So many fighting to our do everybody else. All this and all we need is our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. HE will take us through all things, but only if we allow HIM to do so.

    So often when we get on the other side of the fence it is not near as green as we thought. Greed will do that to us.

  • Taquoshi

    You know things have gotten warped when abortion is okay, but smoking is not.

  • msjallen

    And the Bible says…
    Philippians 4:11-12 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
    Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
    Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
    Sometimes it is hard to keep things in God's hands but when we do He makes our path straight.