God knew What He Was Doing

We go through life looking for all kinds of things that will bring happiness into our lives. We buy big houses, nice cars, rings and things, trying to build memories and things to hold onto, things we think mean so much. It’s sad to say, that many times it’s late in life that we learn the things that are most important to us, are the simplest things in life and in the end hold more meaning than anything we could ever buy or possess. It’s the simple things God gave us from the very beginning of time, like a smell that you remember that brings the memories of happy times, with loved ones long past or an action that someone does, that brings our childhood memories back to mind of good times past. This building of memories that God gave us is kind of a self-check system; He knew we would rather have more happy memories than bad. He also gave memories as an encouragement to do good things not bad. He gave us an inter feeling to go along with these memories to encourage us even more, to do good things for one another. Sometimes just the simple act of helping someone can bring more satisfaction than all the money in the world. Just to see the smile on another persons face and to know that you just made that person’s day or life in some cases. To feel that warm feeling inside and to know you’ve done well. Again, some of us don’t learn these things till late in life. Sometimes it’s not until we are laying on our deathbed, that we realize that we wasted a lot of time doing things and making big deals out of things, which in the end, really don’t matter. Why do you think He said, love your neighbor, doing nice things bring back good memories, things you will enjoy looking back on. He knew that there would come a time that we would want to enjoy looking back on our lives and see good things not bad. Doing good thing please God too! He knew that being greedy, deceitful and hateful to others and trying to get everything you can from someone was not the way to go. This would not be something that would build memories that you would want to keep in mind. They most likely would be accompanied by memories of pain, worrying and suffering. Things you probably would not want to remember at all. I think for this reason, God gave us memories, so as we aged and looked back on our lives, we would see some of what God would see and if you can’t see the good that’s been happening in our lives, what do you think God is going to see. Have you stopped to add up the score on your life lately? Maybe it’s time to be good to your neighbors, friends and family? Author Donald Minor