Blessings come in all dimensions. I'm
blessed to live in a free country and to wake up each morning knowing I have food to eat, clothes to wear, a job to go to,
and a place to come home to and sleep at night. I don't take these blessings for granted.
I'm blessed to have a mom who still loves and serves the Lord at age 85 and who always loves
me no matter what. I'm blessed to have a husband who I not only love, but really like also. I'm blessed to be in a business
that the Lord saw fit to continue us in for twenty-eight years.
The spiritual blessings I have received over the
years have been of immense value. Lessons learned that changed me from an extremely withdrawn and inferior feeling girl into
a very confident and content woman in Christ. The "in Christ" part is indispensable. It's being "in Christ" that makes
all the difference. I've been confident on my own stuff and it lacks depth and eternal meaning. Without an eternal perspective
there is no hope. That is just a very sad place to be and I hope that anyone reading this that does not have the Lord in their
life and heart will take a moment and check out my "Believer" page and make sure and check out the "are you a good person"
test, too. I am pausing here for a moment as I am being overcome with a sense of the cold hard reality that most people just
do not think of life as eternal or rather not in the sense that we are accountable for ourselves. What most people seem to
call religion is so far from what God is all about. Man created religion to reach God, but God sent Jesus to reach man. There's
a song that I just love - the words that touch me every time are: "It's Your kindness Lord that leads us to repentance, it's
Your beauty Lord that makes us stand in awe of Your love, Your love is better than life." God's love to most seems quite vague
and periphereal and quite frankly even the Bible says man does not seek God on his own, only as the Spirit draws him. But
if you sense that you are seeking "something" more and feel an emptiness that nothing seems to satisfy for very long then
God may be working in your life. Don't ignore those deep inner goings on and those nagging questions that never seem to get
answered. Sometimes I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread and then I read God's Word and I am reminded God is holding me
in the palm of His hand. If I did let go of that thread I would not fall as it is God holding on to me, not me holding
on to God.
Satan has convinced the vast majority that he is a little
red guy with a pitchfork and horns and comes out mostly on Halloween. This makes him seem unreal and that is the way he likes
it. Don't be kept in the dark but rather pay attention to that still small voice that calls to you. The Bible asks the question,
"but what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"
Blessings? Start to count yours right now and name them one by one. I think it will surprise
you what God has provided for, given to, and done for you. I can't make sense out of everything, but I am one person and I
am quite finite and limited. God is not and he has given us all we need in His Word - The Holy Bible. There will always
be "what if's" and "what about...'s", and "but.....'s". Christians don't have all the answers but we know the One who does!
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