Like many adults before me………I have had a rough week. If you live long enough you begin to understand that, at times, life can get tough. Without question there are people in this world who have it worse than me, and there might be a few who have it better than me J I guess what I have been thinking on this week is the blessings that God has given me. We sing a song (by we, I mean those that attend church with me and myself). We sing a song that says “count your many blessings see what God has done.” That is where my mind has been at this week. Amiss all the havoc and opportunity for frustration I am reminded that when you stop and put your mind on what God has done for you; there is just not a whole lot of room for complaint. God has given me:
1. Salvation through sanctification.
2. A life filled with Love and people that love me.
3. A roof over my head and a warm bed.
4. Food to eat and Drink to drink.
5. Freedom to worship and a wonderful church to worship in.
6. A great group of people to worship with.
7. A wonderful job.
The list just goes on and on. It brings me to tears to think of all that God has given me and how little I deserve it. Oh, how we owe him our all. “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Psalms 8:4) Perhaps however the greatest blessing of all is the blessing of choice. For the Father sent his own Son to be beaten, mocked, whipped, ridiculed, and nailed to a cross until death. For what? So that we will have a CHOICE to serve him; Jesus died knowing that some would still reject him. Jesus died so that we MIGHT have life and have it more abundant. He died so that there would be a WAY out of sin. The choice is up to us, and the judgment that comes along with choosing to serve or not serve him, falls solely on us. It is on you, make no mistake about it. So I ask you “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?”
I am thankful for the choice that Jesus paid for; for because of his choice to willing go to a sinners cross. He, who knew no sin, died so that I could be free from sin. What a blessing! What grace! He left HEAVEN to come die so that we might, maybe, possibly, would choose to serve him. How many reading this would leave their house to die for someone else? Would you get in your car and knowingly drive to your death for another man? Oh, the grace that brought salvation down to men. I am thankful that we have a choice. That he did not leave my soul condemned and bound for hell, and that I chose to serve God, because of that choice God has mightily blessed my life. I owe everything to him, and guess what…… He will do the same for you. So I ask you, what will profit from your pride? Where will your own ambitions take you….to heaven? What have you done with your choice?
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”-Joshua 24:15
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