Tag: Thanks

Thank You, Because It’s Right

Thank you God for so many blessings bestowed to me this year. Thank you for a year of gifts, good health, financial stability, good friends, and most recently a woman God has felt it was time to bless my heart with. As much as I am happy for her, I must not forget the most important fact that God must remain first. Thank you God for your son Jesus Christ for loving us so much His sacrifice saved our very souls. We could never count our blessings because they are so great, so abundant that we could list all day and never scratch the surface as our blessings.

God doesn’t expect a reward for what He gives us, because God is a giver. Matthew 6:4 (NKJV)4“that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.”What do you expect to get from your giving? Do you give and say ‘look at me, look what I did!”? A heart of gratitude and love is what we have because God shows us how. 

It occurred to me that God doesn’t have to give us anything. We are blessed just to have life. We are so incredibly unique because God blesses every one of us with life. I cannot imagine my life without God and the continued blessings I receive every day. One thing about God is the truth that God’s ways never change. God’s blessings do not sway with the changing winds. James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” 

When was the last time you did something for someone else not because you were going to get something back, but just because it was the right thing to do? 2 Samuel 19:38-39“And the king answered, “Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you. Now whatever you request of me, I will do for you.” 39 Then all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.” 

David offered a place in his home to Barzillai for sheltering David when Absolom rebelled. David did not have to offer this as his thank you, but as David has shown time and again, his generosity of kindness was not the average for the time but he led by example. The true nature of kindness is loving as God loves us, and allows affords us so much grace and love. David’s kindness for this family is maintained for two generations. This changed the life of Chimham forever being taken into David’s family. How few we look to Jesus for His generosity, his selfless gift of life given to each and every one of us. Do we think to truly count our blessings big and small, or are we so wrapped up in life to forget? I’m so thankful for my life, and everything God gives to me.