We have a choice today: a choice to be grateful for what we DO have, or a choice to be ungrateful for what we do NOT have. "Ingratitude is like a bucket with holes." (Nancy Leigh DeMoss) Our lives are constantly filled with blessings, but if we choose to be ungrateful, we will always feel empty, because we don't see those blessings that are leaking through holes are ungratefulness. Which will we be today? Grateful or ungrateful? The choice is ours.
We have a choice today: a choice to be grateful for what we DO have, or a choice to be ungrateful for what we do NOT have. "Ingratitude is like a bucket with holes." (Nancy Leigh DeMoss) Our lives are constantly filled with blessings, but if we choose to be ungrateful, we will always feel empty, because we don't see those blessings that are leaking through holes are ungratefulness. Which will we be today? Grateful or ungrateful? The choice is ours.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. James 1:22-24
When we leave the mirror, our eyes can now see others. This could be good or bad, depending on what we did with ourselves in our "mirror time" with God's Word. If we heard and ignored our problems, then when our eyes are turned to others, we will see their flaws and how they need to change.
But if we have used the mirror time to obey God's Word and do what He has convicted us to, then our attitude when we look at others will be love, service, self-lessness.
"But whoso looking into the perfect law of liberty, and continuity therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (Vs. 25)
But if we have used the mirror time to obey God's Word and do what He has convicted us to, then our attitude when we look at others will be love, service, self-lessness.
"But whoso looking into the perfect law of liberty, and continuity therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (Vs. 25)
Moses was not able to go to the Promised Land, but he could be a part by helping the next leader. We are not all able to do the same ministry, but we can strengthen and encourage those who are in various points of ministry.
What encouragement have you found from God's Word this past week?
2 comments:
I've been reading through psalms, so there are too many to list! I love Psalm 1 and Psalm 3.
Oh the Psalms are so good! :) I try to read one every day. :)
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