“The grass is always greener on the other side”
there is a phenomenon sweeping my church…the symptoms is feeling something will cure the ills, thinking someone has got it better. I call this the “starving sheep syndrome.” Now, I don’t know if this is true but I have the theory that sheep will go eat grass where it is greener. It seems simple enough for me to believe.
So my theory is that we always find ourselves comparing our lives with others. I think this is something we do naturally. I know my dog would always want to eat the food I was eating instead of eating her own food. And I think the analogy is apt here.
I’ve talked with a number of people now who feel left out of the “dating” scene and have told me that their lives would be better if they were with someone. It may be true, but it seems like this is a symptom of “starving sheep”.
I’m guilty of this too…but not so much in relationships. I feel like I need the latest and greatest thing. I guess that’s what I get for being a technophile.
I think I need to learn to be content with what I have…Because not one person or thing or relationship or whatever is going to cure what ails you…I’ll even stick my neck out there and say this won’t be God either. I think God provides the opportunities for us to observe our own displays of “starving sheep” syndrome. And then he leaves it up to us to either deal with it or be chained to it.
See I believe that God wants to give us freedom and the cure for starving sheep syndrome but it is US that must decide to receive it. God is willing, and patient enough to continue providing opportunities to get inoculated…but too quickly are we to negate it.
Reliance on HIM…the true cure…but we’ve GOT TO WANT IT.
The grass is always greener on the other side…