Thankful in ALL things

Wow! Hit really hard with the obvious this morning, which I’m positive has hit me before but never really allowed and applied it to EVRYTHING in my life. This morning it was like a truck slammed into me, ouch and thank you!

I was reading and am not finished reading the book to the right, such a pleasure thus far.

As a Christian, follower of Jesus Christ, I am saved! Saved by his grace. I am forgiven! Forgiven by His grace. I am loved! Loved by HIS grace. I am heard in my prayers and daily trials and joys. I am heard by Him, because of His grace. I am His because of His grace. All that I have and do not have is because of His grace.

I am so not worthy of that which He has given me, repeatedly.

I am so thankful! I express eucharisteo beyond measure to Him.

Eucharisteo= thanksgiving
I have been saved by His grace for a while now but truly being thankful for EVERYTHING that I have struggled with and have not even noticed until today. Wow!
Of course I am thankful on a daily basis for the obvious.
But am I thankful for the less than obvious? The bumps and bruises, the sad and bad, the trials and tribulations, the loss, the sickness, the want?

No, not until now this moment He has made it so obvious that even in those moments He desires that I am thankful.

Yes ,I will pray through the difficult and cry out to Him for that is what He desires. But I WILL remain thankful because I KNOW that He will provide a way out and I will be grown, I will drwn nearer from the difficult.

　

I can testify that trials and pain and anguish and very hard times have grown my faith so much more than the happiest of times that is because I draw near to Him cry out and when it is over and I have reached the end result and gotten back to the happy that is when I see the growth, the closeness.

We have just went through and are still suffering repercussions of no income for 3 months, it has been a great financial lesson and journey. Our children now know and understand a bit more about going without and being thankful for all that we do have.

I look at them, the children and think I do not only want a grateful attitude when things are great and we are getting what we want. I do however desire for our children to be thankful all of the time in everything.

So, pure, so simple…that is what my God, my Father desires from me. Thankfulness, gratitude, thanksgiving, a grateful heart and attitude not sometimes, No, He desires this ALWAYS in ALL things at ALL times.

So that is now a goal, my life journey, to be grateful in ALL, giving Him THANKSgiving.