It was on my heart today of how we take things for granted. Our lives we take for granted when so many are in bad health and are dying. The electricity we have to keep us warm and the water we have to drink. Watching on the news how so many had lost power and water from the winter storm that gripped Texas made my heart ache for them. Our daughter and her husband lost power for several days and it made us feel so helpless living so far from them and not able to help them. All we could do was pray. I know the feeling of not having electricity and water when we lost it for weeks during Hurricane Katrina. I know how it feels to not have food because I grew up poor. I drove to my Parents grave yesterday and passed people walking or riding bikes in the cold. We take for granted the vehicles we drive, the food we have when so many has nothing. I left my beautiful plant out in cold weather not too long ago and when I did bring it back inside it had nearly died but today I seen new growths sprouting on it and I was reminded of how we take for granted our spiritual life as well. If we don’t nurture it our hearts will grow cold. We should be thankful for all of our blessings that God gives to us without ever taking anything for granted.
Exodus 23:25 – And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 – In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Psalms 107:1 – O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever
James 1:17 – Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Colossians 3:17 – And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Faith Filled Gal 