Vineyards and vegetable gardens

I was listening to a speaker called Keith Moore a couple of months ago. It isn't something I usually do but my playlist was on shuffle and it turned out I had a couple of teachings on my laptop. He was speaking on Nabboth and king Ahab.(1 Kings 21)

Many of you might have heard the story before. King Ahab is the guy who was married to the famous Jezebel. Anyway, Ahab sees this nice vineyard besides his palace. It happened to belong to Nabboth. He asks Nabboth whether he can give it to him in exchange for a better one or sell it to him. Nabboth refuses because it was his family inheritance. What is interesting is that Ahab the KING then goes off and sulks! He doesn't eat or even leave his room for days(some sulking??!!) until his wife(read Jez the belle) asks him what the problem is. She tells him not to worry that she will fix it. She gets Nabboth killed and gives her sulky hubby the land he wanted for his vegetable garden.

It is almost hard to believe that a KING who owned soooooo much including fields, silver and gold, would go on a hunger strike/super sulk because he couldn't get the ONE piece of land next door. How often this happens to me! I become so conscious of what I don't have and fail to see what I have. Othertimes, I can see what I have but I fail to enjoy it because my mind is so focussed on what I don't.

This Nabboth story spoke to me majorly at a time in my life when certain things were not going according to plan. It all really hit me when my hubby was gone for about a week and I felt fake because I was by myself, had no job, had not made many friends and I felt like I was doing nothing with my life. God helped me realise that I had an 'Ahab mentality'. I thank Him for giving me perspective. I began to see how blessed I was and looking back now..I wonder what I was mopping about.

Help me Lord to always have perspective.

Give thanks and enjoy what you have:-)