It's nice to have one month of the year when our focus is steered toward giving thanks, isn't it? I've been challenged lately to take "gratitude" to a higher level. I now keep a gratitude journal, addressed to the Lord, in which I am compiling a numbered list of things for which I am grateful. I'm challenging myself to look beyond the typical things for which we express thanks: to see the myriad of things all around me every day that I overlook. This has been so rewarding! The more I see, the more I see! Does that make sense? The more I look for blessings around me, the more the eyes of my understanding are opened to see. One particular joy has been expressing concise thanks for blessings I find in the Word of God as I read each morning. Here is a sampling: ....for Christ in me, the hope of glory!...for a secure soul...for the promise of prayer...for weakness, which keeps me dependent on You!..... Nature holds a multitude of gratitude objects, and each season reveals a different vantage point from which to view them:....for stillness of dawn...for Light, Jehovah's cloak...for a quiet breeze, rustling leaves...for tree sounds, coaxed by the wind... The categories are practically endless! We acknowledge God's glory when we attribute to Him everything we see, feel, taste, hear, touch, believe, and enjoy. May we all have our most blessed Thanksgiving season this month, and may gratitude continue to swell in our hearts throughout the rest of the year.
Cyndi Wiginton
I'm thankful for God's provision of a car that is free to me.
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ReplyDeleteThe most delight ful thing for me this fall while still recovering my strength has been how many different days I have opened my Bible of devo books and the verse for the day has been something ahout how God gives strength. I praise God for His continual encouragement to keep going in His strength.!! Roms 8:26-27 were the verses today. The Spirit helps our infirmities because he knows what to pray for even when we do not:-]
I am thankful for so many things, but especially that God takes an interest in me, that the Creator of the Universe can also be my best friend.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for God's love for me. . . this shows up in salvation, chastening, "good" and "bad" circumstances, etc. All these are for my good, as Romans 8:28 promises, and for His glory.
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