Our daughter Sherri lives with us along with her husband Thomas, and their two kids Courage and Praise. They live in the main house and Patty and I live in a little apartment in the back of the house. Meals are kind of a group project with Patty cooking sometimes and Sherri cooking sometimes. Tonight Sherri fried hamburgers and the hamburger meat was very good, Sherri cooked it perfectly, and then on the hamburger were onions, bacon, cheese, tomatoes, avocados, mayonnaise, and the perfect amount of various spices that Africans like. My oh my, the first one was so good that I had a second one. We eat hamburgers a lot in our house so I am not sure why tonight’s were so special, but they were. The problem now is that my expectations have gone up, and I could easily turn into a hamburger snob who is critical, judgmental, and hard to please with average hamburgers cooked by Patty. I know some of you are thinking, “Cook them yourself!” It is too late in life for me to learn to cook, I do cook toast and coffee and I do a pretty good job at both.

One of our biggest problems in our relationship with God is our expectations of Him because of his faithfulness and goodness in the past. We take His provision for us for granted, stop thanking and praising Him for everything and grumble and complain about inconveniences more than we praise Him. The most often given command in the Bible to us is to worship God, praise Him, thank Him for everything.

Thank You Lord for the great hamburgers tonight, and I promise to thank You for all the hamburgers.