My Appreciation🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

It's nice to be here once again. How are we doing. Hope this message meets you all in good health. It is another day and a lovely weekend. Hope it's gonna be fun for you as for me, I feel it will be swell😄

Ok let's go to the topic. APPRECIATION...

When we say appreciation what comes to mind? To be thankful or give value or merit to something or a person. To show how joyful or happy we are over a particular thing or situation. For instance, when someone assist you with a very difficult situation, we show our appreciation by buying gifts or praising the person or doing one thing or the other to show how greatful we are. The word appreciation synonymously means thankful, gratitude, enjoy, likeness, value, estimate etc

How Appreciative are You?

ItDo you look at yourself and say I have it all, I am okay and I don't need anybody. I have all I need to survive and I owe it all to my ability? It will interest you to know that all you have can be taken away just in a twinkle of an eye and that is why we need to be thankful for all we are and have. We need to be thankful for life, health, strength, ability to make things, solve life's problem, assist others, eat, for being at peace with our neighbors, even the ability to think should be appreciated because we don't know how all these happen but we just see them happen. Yes, science would say that all these happens through certain processes but we know deep down that there is a force which makes this processes possible and for that we need to be thankful to the supernatural being.

I would love to use the story of the 10 lepers in the bible to illustrate why we are suppose to be thankful. I will be using some synonyms to qualify appreciation where necessary. So, our christian brethrens here should be familiar with this story or those who read the bible. But I will try to summarize the story. So the book of Luke 17 vs 11-19 tells us how 10 lepers meet Jesus Christ on his way to Jerusalem and begged him to heal them. He asked them to go show themselves to the priest and on their way going they were healed. However, only one came back to Jesus with joy to say thank you this prompted Jesus to say Go on your way, your faith have saved you. Now the bible did not go further to tell us what happened afterwards to the other nine but let us assume that they all have their thoughts. The one who felt Jesus actually did nothing, the one who showed himself to the priest, the one who who felt he would have gotten better anyway and so on. Whichever one that happened we know that they missed out on a particular thing that the ONE who came back got. To be saved... Religiously we know that our soul matters much more than anything. To be saved is priority. He got his healing and was saved. Double blessings.

Now, how appreciative are you. Are you always thankful for what you have and your ability to do things. Do you look at your achievements and say God I am greatful for everything i have. What about the rich fool in the bible who after looking at his achievements said to himself I will relax and enjoy as I have more than enough to last me a long time not knowing that his soul will be demanded for that night. He could not appreciate God for his mercies or even try to appreciate those who helped him achieve all, he only thought about himself and alas, he never woke up to know how those things was enjoyed.

How appreciative are we to those around us?

There is this African saying that goes, it is an Igbo adage... (Etu dika na nko mere o mekwa ozo) meaning if you praise a king(anyone) for what he did he will do another one and more. We know this is not far fetch. In families,schools, place of work etc we know how appreciation can motivate people to do more. Let's take the classroom for instance, when a teacher appreciates the efforts of her students by praising, applauding or giving them items like sweet, biscuits and the likes sometimes even added marks, we see how encouraged the children become and are willing to do more. Moreso, in families where the both spouses appreciates each other in their efforts to make the family work we see that they put in better energy to enhance it more. we also see the enhanced attitude in children when their parents appreciate them for doing their work very well. They become more proud and confident. Appreciation have a way of intriguing a particular sensor boost in a person's body and it makes the person believe they did the right thing and are valued.

In relationships we see people buying gifts for their partners to appreciate them for the love they show them or to show them how much they love them. This act alone sends a beautiful message to the receiver who in turn will do better and bigger things. It is sad when some people think or feel entitled to things,there by not seeing the value in little things. They feel one has to give them the whole world or do some thing extraordinary for them to appreciate them but little things matters and once the little things are appreciated, bigger ones will be made. Let's look at the one leper who came back to say thank you to Jesus. He could have gone away and will still be healed but he came back and appreciated the fact that someone did something great for him as we know lepers are outcast during those times. And his act of gratitude catapulted him to having salvation.

Someone will say but I do all things by myself so who should I be thankful to? Firstly, to God because one won't be able to do any thing without the help of the creator who gives and sustain life, appreciate your workers, treat them as human, appreciate the little efforts people put in for you to make your business function. Appreciate the fact that you are alive and healthy because so many are alive and suffering, appreciate the fact that you can pay your bills and do stuffs, breath, walk, talk, sit, poo, talk to people and so on. There is every need, a million and one to give thanks for. To God and to those around us.

We can give thanks by simply praising, buying gifts, talking good about people, promotion etc.

I hope we learnt one or two things from this little piece. Thanks for stopping by. Much love... 💕😘