"Anong ulam?" "Uhhhh....Yun lang?" "May gulay na kasama?" "Ah so sayote....anong cut?" "Sige...una ka na."
This is a phone conversation that I heard when I was in the FX on my way home. I cannot help but hear those words of disinterest as he talked with someone about the dinner he's going to have; I cannot help as well but to get annoyed with how he reacted. You'd say I'm too quick to judge the person at the back seat, but to tell you, it seemed like I heard myself saying those words.
Probably you have at least expressed those phrases on certain occasions, especially when you have eaten the same food but with different ingredients or sauce; and this usually happens when we eat veggies. Perhaps the person who prepared it lacked time to buy from the market or simply has no means to buy food with more costly prices and that they're saving money.
Unknowingly we tend to grumble when we see/experience the same thing God gives us because in full pride we assume as if we've mastered surpassing those. We could even be numb enough to feel that we let the days pass by without rethinking if we should act the same way we did for the past weeks...months...or horribly, years. We just go on our routinary days without realizing if we still keep our characters (especially at home) unchanged...stagnant...especially that we're comfortable with the people we're with at home and that we feel at ease with how they deal with our unacceptable attitude.
Sometimes the Lord would give us the same testing but on each occasion, it comes with a different "cut". We complain, get sarcastic and express the biggest sigh we could ever make because we see each of those testings on a different view. We feel like God's overloading us with too much trials, allowing ourselves to think that they're too many and too huge to take in and carry on with our walk with Him.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Rom 12:2-3
Let us cast down all our heavy burdens unto the Lord. Climbing that steep mountain and walking into that narrow road don't come easy but God has promised us that He will walk along with us. Change doesn't happen overnight, but never should we make this a futile excuse to escape from our fleshly nature; God's grace is ever-sufficient and may we see it as a precious gift given to us by the Lord, so we can always be encouraged to change and grow.
God is a God of in-between. We saw how He has called us and He can give us a vision of what our upward call would be like, but He won't tell us the things that we will go through. However, one sweet promise we can hold on to is that He will be with us along those "in-betweens".
