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Counting my Blessings

Blessings:
Anything that gives happiness
Good fortune
Biblical: God's undeserved gifts and favors given out of his love and kindess.
Personal: unexpected joys or provisions that benefit you or your loved ones.

Sometimes blessings can go unnoticed.  We tend to put them in the closet and on focus the negatives in our lives.  Why did this happen or why is this happening to me. Maybe we need to take a deeper look at what we are blessed with..pull those blessings out and start looking at the more positive things in our lives. 

God's blessings are pleasures or advantages for the purpose of bringing goodness into your life.  They have another purpose too: to nudge you to the place he wants you to be, in attitude or action.  You may not understand the full value when you first recieve them.  It is hard to stay focused on the blessings God is giving us and the blessings we want. 

Some blessings could be direct results of obedience to God, and some blessings happen when you share the gospel with someone.

The apostle Paul asked Godo 3 times for his "thorn in the side" to be remved.  God told him the thorn was a blessing in disquese, to keep him from becoming conceited.
hmmm.. Something to ponder on.

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly.  Heart, be thou the sunflower, no only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to him.
Jean Paul Richter

still working on it.................





Posted on 10/20/2005 10:41 AM Visits: 9
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