Rotten Apple

If you have a bushel of apples and there is one rotten apple in that bushel, do you know what happens to that bushel of apples? Slowly, but surely each apple becomes rotten, once one rots the next and so on and so forth it happens, the more rotten apples, the quicker it happens and soon the whole bushel is ruined, because of the one apple. But remove the rotten apple before it has a chance to affect the other apples and the bushel of apples will be OK for a longer period of time. Why is that? I am not really sure, but that infected apple, has tendency to spread the rottenness quicker, because it is wet, it is oozing its slime onto the other apples and so on, easier to affect the other apples.

Much like a rotten apple, a negative person is much the same way. If a negative person is in a room with positive people, they will continue to spout their negativity, they will infect the positivity in the room. This is why in the Bible it says be thankful for everything, it says Give thanks in all things, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus. It doesn't say complain about everything, it doesn't say be negative about it all, because that is just a way for the devil to get a foothold in your life, in the lives of the people that are around you. It is the call of God on our lives to be thankful in all things, not be like the world, but to be like Jesus, to be thankful even unto death, to be thankful that God called Him to give His life for us, not to curse and complain that we have a hard life, but to give Him the glory in the hard places we find ourselves. Because even in the hard places, He is still King. 

I have said it so many times before, precious metal or even a diamond are not formed by no pressure, or heat, they are formed under the hottest temperatures, under the most pressure. God wants to make us the people that will follow Him into the fire, will lay down our lives for Him, will do what it takes and not complain that it is to hard. If we complain that it is too difficult, than are we doing what God has called us to do? 

I have heard it said more times than I can count, if God wants me to do it, He will give me the strength or the will to do it. But I have to say to that is He has. It is in the Bible, it is written, plain and simple. He gives us what we need each day. Don't be like the world and wait for something He already gave you, walk in what He has given you, do what He has called you to do, not because you feel like it, but because He calls you to do it. A kid may not want to clean his room, but they do it, because that is what their parents tell them to do. God has directed us, where is our fear for God? Isn't it time to walk in what we say, say what we mean and do what we say? Time to stand and be counted.