God's blessings are constant; as constant as the air we breathe. As constant as the dawning of each new day for His mercies are new every morning. As constant as the changing of the seasons. As constant as His faithfulness to forgive our sins when we confess them. My thankfulness is not as constant. I often drift into a taking for granted mode.
Sometimes God overwhelms us with blessing. I have just experienced one of those overwhelming blessing times. Last Wednesday, our ninth grandchild was born. What a huge blessing and how very grateful we are for her. This was a high risk pregnancy for our daughter-in-law so we had covered these last nine months with extra prayer, and were so very thankful to have our granddaughter so healthy and normal at birth and our daughter -in-law so healthy. However, we were overwhelmed with gratefulness for the safe but abnormal delivery of the baby. Things happened so quickly there was no time to get to the hospital, so our son delivered her at home with the help of a 911 operator. Overwhelming blessing!
Our daughter and son-in-law, who have been in an adoption process and waiting for a baby, received a call Saturday night from their agency in Mississippi that they had a newborn baby girl. So, Laurie, Dax, and children came to our house from Florida last night on their way to Mississippi today to meet and bring home their daughter. We will get to meet grandchild number 10 later this week. Overwhelming blessing!
All of this, along with the season of Easter, has me evaluating and meditating and being immensely humbled. I deserve nothing my God chooses to give me, not the air I breathe, not one more new day's dawning, not His faithfulness, and certainly not the forgiveness of my sin. Yet He chose me before the foundation of the world to be His child and joint heir with His only begotten Son, to be the recipient of the imputed righteousness of this Son through his death and resurrection, and to have the promise of eternal life with Him. Overwhelming blessing!
1 comment:
thanks so much for this awareness. indeed we take things for granted
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