Time to get your big girl pants on (or for some of you, may be time to get your big boy pants on).
Yep, I read it again to myself and its blunt...real blunt as a matter of fact, but I think it needed to be said and so I said it.
Sometimes you need to stop having a "temper ta trim" so to speak. Stop with the pity-party. Stop just sitting on your butt complaining about what's wrong in your life, declaring that God and the world owe you something when in fact, they owe you nothing. Yep, they really owe you nothing at all in the great scheme of things.
Take responsibility for your own actions and decisions. Sometimes you just didn't so 'happen' upon the place you find yourself. In fact, many times it was your own choices that got you where you are at. And until you realize this very fact known as your "own free will" you may just stay stuck in a miserable place as the world continues on instead of taking responsibility and moving forward with grace and mercy.
God can't change free will. Nope. He can't make you do anything that you are not willing to do. Sometimes, however, God gives you the 'key' to a door but you have to be the one to take the 'key' from Him and unlock the door, turn the knob, open the door and take a step through it. Yep, you have to act and do. God just isn't going to hand everything to you on a silver platter. And I am sorry it is foolish if you think so, and if you are stuck in that mind set you just may be wondering through the 'hallways' of life.
For instance, you may wish to go on a diet. You have to be the one to be strong and stay firm when shopping for food. The grocery store has plenty of healthy foods to choose from but you know what else they have up and down their aisles? Junk food. It is you who decides what to put in your grocery basket. All the nutritional facts are on the cartons but you decide if you are going to read them and eventually partake in them or not.
Doing nothing but praying may not get you anywhere either. God may be waiting for you to act. It would be silly to sit on your butt, complaining of no money, and who knows what else, and not get up onto your feet and go find a job or something. He has given you hands, feet, eyes, ears and a mouth for a reason--to use them.
If you are using something as a crutch in your life, whether out of fear, or as a means of manipulating others around you for your own selfish needs and pride, take heed--you need to stop. At some point, you will find yourself discontent and discouraged. Your loved ones will grow weary of you. They can't enable you forever and they shouldn't enable you. And when they stop enabling you, you will be responsible for what befalls you and the repercussions it could bring. It is not their responsibility to hold you up.
Time to get your big girl/boy pants on. You can't be in diapers forever. Getting rid of diapers opens a whole new world up to you, one with out Desitin and diaper rashes.
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