“Tuesday Devo, 07.21.2015”

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

"...give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."  (1 Thess. 5:18, ESV)

I'm pretty sure that most of the times I've talked about that verse, I've thought more along the lines of, "But what about when the situation is difficult?" In doing that, I'm pretty sure I missed the main point of the teaching.

• How many times has God done something for me that he didn't have to do? And how many times have I neglected to thank him for that?
• How many times has God given an extravagant level of ease and luxury in my life? And how many times have I worried that I would lose it... rather than thanking him for it?
• How many times have other people—my parents, my church, my spouse—been unbelievably kind to me? And how many times have I taken that for granted—assumed that I had deserved that from them anyway?

How many times could I actually give thanks to God or another human being every day if I would only be humble enough to actually appreciate how blessed I am?

- Dan Lankford

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