You know how sometimes people will be asked what they're thankful for, and they'll respond with, "Oh, I'm thankful for a lot of things."
Hmm, are you just avoiding the question because you haven't actually thought of anything you're thankful for? Maybe not.
But come on, you know you've done it.
Anyway, I hope you had a great thanksgiving. Thinking of all the things I'm thankful for, makes me feel like a spoiled kid. He's dumped piles and piles of blessings on my life. and sometimes it's easy to forget.
I am thankful for God's plan. He does have a plan for my life but it's up to me whether I want to move forward in His plan, or if I want to continue in mine. I know that His way is always going to be better, so it's a constant struggle for me trying to hand Him my life's story. I think I know what's best for my life. But His plans? They're so much better than mine. And that's a very exciting thing.
God gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him. I believe He has someone for me, and I pray, I pray that I walk in his will.
"'For I know the plans I have you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,'" (Jeremiah 28:11).I am thankful for the friends and family that He has placed in my life. I can't handle this life on my own. In solitude. So He's given me my family and blessed me with my church family. And ultimately, He's given me His Son, who gave me life. Which is really something to be thankful for.
Which leads me to the last on my list.
I am thankful for forgiveness. When it's given, it's a beautiful thing, but it becomes a bit more complicated when you are the one giving it. Learning how to forgive has changed my outlook on God's forgiveness. He didn't have to. He could have wiped us all out again and again. We're are just humans for crying out loud. When He created us, Him being all knowing and whatnot, He must have known what creating us would lead to. The price that would need to be paid.
We were killing ourselves. We, a sinful people, were wreaking havoc on this earth. And yet He still had compassion? It's awe inspiring, what He did.
He came down, humbled himself and became man, and lived among us. Then He died so that we might live.
This is our God.
And He is something to be thankful for.
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