Becoming grateful before it’s too late
In this world of give me more and give it to me now, it’s hard to remain in a state of gratefulness. At least this has been my experience thus far. I often leave spirit-filled women’s retreats with so much insight, refreshment, and amazement. Only to return home and find myself slipping ever so quickly back into the mind-set of ungratefulness. Is there a remedy?
Often times it takes tragedy like the death of family member or an email thread of a child who has just succumbed to cancer to give a person a dose of their true reality but soon after like any good medicine it wears off and we display the sickening symptoms once again. Is there a remedy?
I suppose the best remedy lies in prayer for revelation. The follow-up of course is action. What actions must we take to ward off the corrupt thinking that battles our spirit by the hour? The answer is simple; simply said that is. Be conscious and deliberate in our praise & the acknowledgement of our blessings.
If we spend more time thanking God for the blessings that we have, we would have less time to gossip, murmur or go into a thinking frenzy about the things we don’t. If we settled into the fact that God’s outcomes may not look like what we envisioned our outcomes to be then maybe, just maybe we could find more peace & joy in this daily Christian walk.
I don’t write as someone who has mastered the plan but as someone who strives to live a life that God would be very pleased with; in my attempt to do so I must subject myself to lots of examination. I am just sharing my journey with you. If you find my sharing annoying, delete them. If you are tired of deleting them ask me to remove you from my mailing list. Otherwise, I will assume that you are someone who cares about what’s going on my head!
Agape---
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