HIS LOVE, GRACE AND MERCY ENDURES FOREVER
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Over the years I've been blessed to live and/or visit some amazing places. Mountains, seashores, the great lakes, the great plains... many places where the view seems to go on forever. In these locations I've found places where I can feel God in a special way. Places where I can sit and experience a time of amazing closeness to Him.
In the Colorado Mountains, we found these places and took a chainsaw and made benches for a place to meet with the Lord. These were very special places... but in reality, we don't need those places... wherever we go, God is there to meet with us. All we have to do is talk to Him.
I wake early most mornings and don't want to bother my wife so I lay quietly and pray. I pray for some people I know in need; jobs, health, fear etc. I pray for safety in the travel that we always have to do. I pray for my children and grandchildren etc. But I mostly thanked God for the way that HE has blessed me.
We don't do that often enough: just take the time to count our blessings. We are so blessed. If you too know Jesus in a personal way, you too are a child of the KING! Think about that today... Not only a child of the KING. But a child of the KING OF KINGS.
No matter what happens to you this day, this week, this month or this year... Give thanks to our almighty God. We can be thankful in every situation. Even in death, we can be thankful, for death does not have the final word... God has the final word and death is not the end but just the beginning of something far better, far greater, far sweeter than anything we've known to this point.
Psalm 118:1, "O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: because His mercy endureth for ever."
So no matter what you face today, count the blessings you've received, If you can count that high.
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