What do you do when you feel taken unappreciated?
It is very easy to get back when your husband or family take advantage of you..(or maybe not all family members)
What about when those whom are your friends or your youth? Recently someting happens and I feel like that. I do not want to be taken for granted. I don’t think they make use of me. But take for granted and not appreciating. Yes. I do feel like that. The thing is that they may not actually know this is how I am feeling.
I thought of Jesus. Surely he has felt like that too when he was doing his ministry on earth. He came to heal, made the lame to walk and made the blind to see. He delievered people from captivity and snare of sins. He gives living water. Yet what they did back to him was ungrateful. They exchanged Him for another sinner and crucified him. They spit at him and challenged his authority. Surely he will feel 10000 times more unappreciated than me… Yet graciously he said, ” Forgive them, Father, for they know what they are doing…”
Yet here am I comfortably sitting on my sofa in my air-conditioned TV room, feeling sorry for myself — for not being invited to a junior cell outing. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM with me!!! I think it links to my personal value and worth. Jesus knew His destiny and purpose. He knows what is He called to do.
O Lord, widen my heart that I will not hold such a matter in my heart. Help me to let go like Jesus did. Remind me of my purpose and identity. My identity is in Christ Jesus.
