Living with the situations God has put us in.

This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
This passage caught my attention. It was part of a letter from Jeremiah to the people of Isrel that had been taken as slaves to Babalon. They were to live in the situation God had put them in. They were to be happy about it and live a life that was productive, and happy even though they were slaves. I know many times I get very down and depressed about situations, thinking about how someone has it so much more or is doing so much better than I. I get lost in that and do not live with the joy God wants me to live in. He has soooooo blessed me. Many times the reason I do not have better is because I do not do as he has said. Plant your food build your houses marry and live life not on what I do not have but on what he is going to bless me with.