This week at work, I asked a newlywed co-worker how the married life was treating her. She said that she's loving it and that she couldn't understand how some people can say that life is over after marriage. I was happy for her, but the thought lingered with me that, I had also heard people speak of marriage as though it were a prison sentence.
Later that same day, I heard another co-worker talking with some students about music. He said something along the lines of: "When you get to be an adult, you gravitate toward music from the time in life when you felt the most free." I felt bad for him.
I thought about both of those conversations, and I was grateful that the Lord has been so good to me, in spite of myself. Thank God. Thank God often. Thank God that "He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities" (Psalm 103:10). We are entitled to absolutely nothing. The only things we have merited are things we don't want. "Through [Jesus] then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name" (Hebrews 13:15).