Me and 2 of the guys were sitting in Cheddars for lunch. (one of our favorite, cheap spots to hit up for lunch or dinner) And our waiter was so rude!! haha. It was almost like that thing in high school when the guy steals the girl from the other guy sort of thing. Anyway, we were just talking about how weird it was with this guy and for some reason he kept bringing us refills!! All three of us had water and within 15 minutes of being seated we had 3 glasses of water each!! We were cracking up because it was crazy that he would bring us refills when we only had taken one or two drinks out of the previous glass and to top it all off he wasn't taking our other glasses. So now we have 9 glasses of water on the table and 6 of them are basically full... One of the guys took a picture with his phone.

Now typically I don't talk bad about getting too many refills and my intentions aren't to complain. But with the fact of him being rude and being amazing at keeping our thirst quenched, this was a very rare combo.

So we get back to the office and I had forgotten about all the water's we had on the table when all the sudden.. I had a thought about them. It was simply, "You know those water's are exactly how blessings from God are." I sat and pondered on it for a while and I understand where that thought would come from.

Many times in life we don't understand what God is doing. We wonder why He is being so mean to us!! Why can't he just give me what I want and need!! When in fact He would love to bless us with everything we want and need in life, but He cant. Jesus told a story once about a man who was going out of town and he gathered his servants around and gave them talents according to their abilities. The man that was given 5 talents turned them into 10 talents. The man that was given 2 talents turned them into 4. The man that was given 1 talent went and hid his talent. When the man returned he gathered them together to see what they did with their talents. The man that had 5 was blessed for turning his 5 into 10 and the man that was given 2 talents was also blessed for adding to his talents. However, the man that took his one talent and hid it was not blessed and was cursed and cast out.

God wants us to develop the talents in front of us before He blesses us with more things. He wants to bless us with more things, but he will what until we make our move. The waiter was like God in the sense of saying DRINK UP!! I HAVE SOOOO MUCH MORE FOR YOU!

Are you developing the talents God has placed in front of you?? Try it and watch how that trouble you are facing works itself out.