nice car, health insurance, vacations, dental insurance, pay checks, nice house, boat, food, clothes, malls, friends, family, animals, shoes, AC, money, freedom, jobs, technology, media, etc.
Often times our minds are focused on these earthly benefits and we can get carried away with them and take them all for granted. And while these benefits are blessings from God, what about the countless spiritual benefits God grants us? We read tonight in church from Psalms 68. The minister focused alot on verse 19 and tied it in with the 2nd reading. It reads:
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.
God LOADS us daily with so many benefits they are overflowing. Picture yourself with your arms spread widely open as if you were hugging santa claus. God fills our outstretched arms to overflowing with his wonderful benefits, daily. I have brainstormed a few of the countless benefits that I can think of that God has granted me in my life...it's been good for me to thinkand ponder about and to be more thankful for them...and to focus more on these benefits than on the earthly ones.
- He gives us grace, peace, joy, faith, love, patience, hope.
- He promises us a home in heaven.
- He puts us through tribulation.
- He gave us salvation.
- He grants us the Holy spirit...a down payment to heaven.
- The Holy Spirit pricks, and comforts, and teaches.
- He placed me in a wonderful church family, with supportive fellowship.
- He gives me knowledge and wisdom.
- He makes me strong when I am weak.
- He created this perfect world that we are only passing through for a short time.
- He NEVER leaves.
Take time the think of the benefits God loads you daily with.
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