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A Comprehensive List of Funny First World Problems
A Comprehensive List of Funny First World Problems
Cheeky Kid is a cybernaut who spends a lot of time browsing the web, grasping at infinite information and reveling in entertainment and fun.
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��List of Funny First World Problems
So, what is a first a world problem?
A first world problem is a problem that’s most commonly experienced by people from wealthy nations (or at least well-to-do cliques), which would probably be considered insignificant or petty by people from poor nations (or at least struggling cliques). In a nutshell, a first world problem is a most often a problem of minor or inconsequential inconvenience.
Given so, first world problems are often sneered or laughed at. While they are technically ‘real’ problems, they pose no major disturbance or life-threatening outcome. Still, most of the time, the ridiculousness of first world problems do invoke some bouts of laughter and entertainment. And that’s why this list exists!
Hold on tight to your dear socks right now because you’re about to get a dose of the funniest first world problems.
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2. I didn’t get exactly what I wanted for Christmas.
3. I’m so hungry but I don’t want to cook.
4. I was stuck in traffic for 30 minutes. What a day!
5. My house is such a mess! There’s stuff everywhere.
6. I'm hungry but I already brushed my teeth.
7. My walk-in closet is not big enough.
8. There’s not enough dressing on my salad. Now my salad tastes like salad.
9. There’s nothing to drink at home...except unlimited supply of fresh drinking water.
10. I want food from the back of the fridge, but it's blocked by all the food in the front of the fridge.
11. McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine
12. My roommate ate a hot dog without a bun. Now I have an uneven ratio of hot dogs to buns.
13. One pillow is too low, but two pillow is too high.
14. I had to turn down the brightness of my smartphone because it hurt my eyes.
15. I'm so tired of eating at all of the restaurants near my place.
16. I want to go swimming in my swimming pool, but don't want to get up and put my swim suit on.
17. Polishing the marble in my bathroom is such a thankless job.
18. The tap water doesn't taste very good here. Now I have to drive to the convenience store and buy some bottled water.
19. I hate it when I go take a poop and I forget to bring my phone.
20. My smartphone is too big for the pockets on my favorite pants.
21. Why is there no food? There is just a bunch of ingredients to make food.
22. I don’t like wallets because they’re too heavy and bulky for my pants.
23. I was too full to eat the free dessert I got from eating an entire tower of mini-hamburgers.
24. I just bought a new pair of shoes but I don’t want to use them because they might get dirty.
The Source of all comfort
The Source of all comfort
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 cor 1:
Paul
Paul begins this letter with praise for God. This is normal.
Who God is provokes the worship Paul in every letter he writes.
And for believers, this is something that should be a natural thing for us.
When we consider who God is, the mercy he has given, the grace he has given, the judgment he has withheld, it has to provoke a desire to worship Him.
If we don’t have a desire to worship God it may be evidence that we do not know him.
The phrase “Blessed be” Paul uses is a expression of gratitude and worship to the one being blessed.
Essentially what he is saying is “Praise be to God.”
Its a doxology. We sing one every Sunday.
Praise God from whom all blessing flow. Praise Him all creatures here below. Praise Him above Ye Heavenly Hosts. Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost.
We do it every Sunday.
We are praising God for who he is.
Thats what Paul is doing here in verse 3.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 1
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
Paul praises God, specifically he praises the Father.
But for what does he praise Him?
He praises him for his mercy. He praises him for his comfort.
In fact, he attributes these things to him so much so that uses these as names for God.
He calls him “The Father of Mercies”
We’ve hammered this home enough now for you to know what mercy is.
Mercy is God withholding from us what we deserve.
Paul is praising God for this.
God you are worthy to be praised because you withhold from me what I truly deserve.
You are the Father of mercy.
See this is important, especially when we consider our sufferings in this life, because its the mercy of God that allows us to praise God even through tremendous pain.
At times, as Christians, we tend to dwell on the discomforts and difficulties we face, and we forget the mercy of God. That nothing we face in this world and our lives is more than we deserve. In fact, anything we face as believers is less that what we deserve. God has been merciful.
We deserve/ I deserve the wrath of God in hell, and he has saved us from that. And for that, we praise Him. Thank God that he is the Father of Mercy.
Not only is the the Father of Mercies.
He is also the God of All Comfort.
These two twin truths are so important.
Its always important to recognize God mercy and comfort at the same time.
We are not getting what we deserve.
At the same time, what we often do experience is more than we bear.
We need God to be our comfort, and He is.
He is the God of all comfort.
He is the source of all comfort. In fact, true comfort can’t be found any where else.
People look many places for comforts.
Some look for comfort in solitude.
Others look for comfort in a crowd.
Some look in alcohol.
Some look in drugs.
Some look for it in family.
Some look in money.
Some look for it in a pastor.
Food
Some look for it in a house.
Some look
But everyone of those sources come up empty. The question is do we believe God.
Looking in all of those places leads to depression, because none of those places provide it.
And here we ask ourselves.
Do we believe God here? That He is the God of all comfort.
In other words, all comfort comes from him.
If we do believe that, then the only place we can go for comfort and expect to find it is God.
And there we do find it.
Look what Paul says in verse 4.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 1
who comforts us in all our affliction
He comforts us. While every other thing falls flat, there is one who comforts.
And he is not just there for us in one trial for one day.
He is the never ending well of comfort.
He’s the
never shall run dry.
He’s the comfort for tri
This allows us to be healed and confident in every thing we face, that we are not left alone.
That we are not expected to approach any trial with only our abilities to rely upon.
He’s there when its too much.
He’s there when we lose the battle.
He there when we fall apart.
We serve a God who is present in every trouble and he give us comfort.
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
It doesn’t mean that we won’t need to be reminded of this.
We need to be reminded of his presence.
Some things are easier to trust God with.
The beauty of this is that His presence of comfort doesn’t change. He is there.
We have a ever abiding comforter in our God who is more than capable of handling all our pain and suffering.
But he doesn’t comfort us for our sakes only. Look what it says continuing on in verse 4
who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
SO THAT. There is a purpose for our suffering multiple purposes.
Suffering proves our faith.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Suffering prepares the Christian for glory.
For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
Suffering provides you with an opportunity to minister.
The Obligation of the comforted
The Obligation of the comforted
What does God expect of those who are comf
When we suffer, and God comforts us in our affliction, there is a serious expectation that comes with that comfort.
He isn’t just there to wipe the tears for us, but also to equip to be avenue of comfort as well.
God pours grace that his grace may be poured into others.
Every situation is difficult, but the reality is, some of you have been through things in your life that I never have. You have the ability to minister in a way that I could never.
“When you’ve passed through your own fiery trials, and found God to be true to what he says, you have real help to offer. You have firsthand experience of both his sustaining grace and his purposeful design. He has kept you through pain; he has reshaped you more into his image. . . . What you are experiencing from God, you can give away in increasing measure to others.”
David Powlison
We comfort others with the comfort we have been given.
But comfort comes to those who are afflicted.
This implies affliction will come.
We will have bad days.
There will be tough days.
It will be too much for US to handle.
Look what Paul says in verse 5
For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.
I love this verse.
It tells us that our suffering will be abundant.
Paul doesn’t try to paint Christianity as a cake walk.
He doesn’t try to make the message more palatable by down playing the reality of suffering.
He’s honest.
The suffering is abundant.
Specifically he mentions the sufferings of Christ. This is specific. There are some sufferings we face that are a result of life in a fallen world.
Other suffering, The suffering he mentions here is more associated with the suffering that results from following Christ
Either way, Paul acknowledge, its a lot of suffering. This is not an easy load to bear. Its abundant.
Its not easy. Some of you have been through a lot life. Tremendous pain and loss and yet, you’re here today. Worshipping God. Which brings us to our next point.
The second reason I love this verse. As our suffering increases, so does God’s grace....pause.
Paul should know. This man may have experienced more difficulty for the name of Christ than any other believer in recorded history. In this letter, he tells us a little bit about what it looked like in the life of apostle Paul
Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren; I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches. Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern? If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.
Paul went through it , and he found Christ to be all he needed in every trial and then he used it.
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
And again, Paul is reminding them that this is how God is using His trials.
His pain is for their gain, and he’s not worried about them being comforted.
This doesn’t mean he isn’t concerned about their suffering. It means he is sure that if they are sharing in the sufferings of Christ, they will also share in the comfort of Christ.
He knows that the place he receive comfort is t
Again, Paul is experienced in this.
Paul has experienced and he is confident of the comfort he has received . Look at verse 8
Look at verses 8-9
For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
Couple of things here:
Beyond our strength.
Despaired of life.
Paul’s particular situation
It happened to them in order to expose their need for God and to show the sufficiency of God when they go there and find comfort.
look at verse 8.
Paul’s goal here isn’t just to tell them of his most recent struggle. His goal is to show them theologically what it means to suffer and to experience the comfort of God.
He wants them to share in the comfort he has experienced.
And if they share in the comfort of Christ now, they will always share it.
The Promise of Unending Comfort
The Promise of Unending Comfort
For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.
Delivered Forever.