There are a lot of qualities that can be described for someone with poor mindset. That person doesn't have to be in terrible lack. And most of the time, that's the case.
I've realized that ungratefulness is one of the traits of someone with poor mindset. For sure, the good LORD has provided us with at least something to meet one of our needs. And I stick with my firm belief on the parable of talents.
If we can't be trusted with little things, how can we be trusted with bigger things?
I recently encountered such example. Perhaps this person grew up with or was raised by someone the same... Concerned for this person's well being, I asked what he had *toot* the previous day. He said he had none. When I asked why, he said because there's nothing to make for *toot*. And I was surprised that he indeed got such mentality from the person who raised him. I was also surprised because there was this and that and some of those. All he had to do was gather them and make something out of them.
Still in wonder, I asked what he wanted to *toot* and was told he wanted this. Deep inside my first thought was, "You are already poor and yet you are still being choosy." It wasn't the first time this happened. And it happened a number of times when he was with the person who raised him. Nurture vs. Nature. Imagine if both were present at the same time.
Sometimes we want bread, but we only have some flour and salt. Or maybe we want rice but what we have are other grains. And because they're not what we particularly look for, we don't make a move. We don't make do of what we have.
Thinking of this recent encounter, I got to think what do I have right here and right now with me that I can use to meet the things I need and want? I pray I too am not being ungrateful to the LORD by taking things for granted, by being unfaithful with whatever little I have.
Stewards. That's what we are.
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