Overflowing with Gratitude Part 2

So, here's the long expected sequel to my previous post "overflowing with gratitude." You're welcome.... or not. Well, this post finds me back at Toomer's, contemplating and procrastinating the studying of physics for me test tomorrow. To get back to my post from the other day, I bring up my fighting the sovereignty of God.

"So, how does Wesley fight the sovereignty of God," you ask? Well my answer is ingratitude. I resist Him by my complaining about stuff, mainly school. I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel as if all this jazz about getting an education is quite overrated. Classwork, tests, labs, projects.. they can all take a toll on your happiness, especially when you think you can think of a million other places to be. But perhaps that's just me. I guess I could be the black sheep. I normally would like to think of myself as different, but I'd prefer not to think that I'm alone in this struggle.

Anyways, I digress. I have come to find that ingratitude and discontentment seem to be my leading forms of rebellion. Who in the heck do I think I am? I complain all the time, I'm sure a lot of you have heard it, about having to do schoolwork or go to class or whatever. This feeling strikes out against the spirit which is surrendered unto the Father, our Saviour, the Author of a salvation.

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
Come, behold the works of the Lord, Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariots with firs.
Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah." (Psalm 46)

I kinda stole that excerpt to talk about the sovereignty of God from a sermon by old Jonathan Edwards. It displays wonderfully the wisdom and power of He Who is in control of all things. It is God to whom we turn for help. It is God who is there even when the seas overflow and the mountains slide into the sea. God is even the One who commands such things to happen. He crushes, He kills, He desolates, He ceases the wars. We are just commanded to be still and to quit our arguing and disagreeing with God for the things that He in His wisdom finds fit to have come to pass.

So, I should shut my mouth, do my homework and projects, and go to class, all with a smile on my face because He is God. I think that this is where we find happiness in our circumstances: it's not the circumstances that can make us happy, but rather the surrendering to the God who organized life in such a way. Those who are poor in spirit inherit the Kingdom of God, that is, those who find not their wealth in the possessions collected or in the situation in which they prosper.

Well, I don't feel as if I explained my thoughts so well... I felt myself drifting, but maybe it makes at least some sense.