Praise you today in the sun and tomorrow in the storm!
"I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on men: God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, amd a stranger enjoys them instead." -Ecclesiastes 6:1
If you do not have Christ, you can have everything under the sun and still you cannot fully enjoy it, because Something is missing.
Sometimes, I find myself wallowing in negativity, angry over how I was wronged, stressed over money, or the lack of, overwhelmed by my to do list, just plain unsatisfied. While studying Ecclesiastes Chapter 6 this morning, I ran across this story and had to share...
"A man walks into a shoe store and asks for a size 8. The well trained salesman says, “But sir, you take an eleven or eleven-and-a-half.” “Just bring me a size eight.” The sales guy brings the shoes and the man crams his feet into them and stands up in obvious pain. He turns to the salesman and says, “I’ve lost my house to the I.R.S., I live with my mother-in-law, my daughter ran off with my best friend, and my business has filed Chapter 7. The only pleasure I have left is to come home at night and take my shoes off.”
God has definitely blessed the socks off of me, and I'd like to go out on a limb and say that he has also blessed your socks off too.
No matter what season we are in, his presence and blessings are surrounding us! Praise him exactly where you are today. Thank him! Thank him for blessing you so greatly! And, let's each take it a step further, make a list of 20 blessings that you are thankful for today and thank God for each of them! I love you all and am thanking God this morning for you!
If you do not have Christ, you can have everything under the sun and still you cannot fully enjoy it, because Something is missing.
Sometimes, I find myself wallowing in negativity, angry over how I was wronged, stressed over money, or the lack of, overwhelmed by my to do list, just plain unsatisfied. While studying Ecclesiastes Chapter 6 this morning, I ran across this story and had to share...
"A man walks into a shoe store and asks for a size 8. The well trained salesman says, “But sir, you take an eleven or eleven-and-a-half.” “Just bring me a size eight.” The sales guy brings the shoes and the man crams his feet into them and stands up in obvious pain. He turns to the salesman and says, “I’ve lost my house to the I.R.S., I live with my mother-in-law, my daughter ran off with my best friend, and my business has filed Chapter 7. The only pleasure I have left is to come home at night and take my shoes off.”
God has definitely blessed the socks off of me, and I'd like to go out on a limb and say that he has also blessed your socks off too.
No matter what season we are in, his presence and blessings are surrounding us! Praise him exactly where you are today. Thank him! Thank him for blessing you so greatly! And, let's each take it a step further, make a list of 20 blessings that you are thankful for today and thank God for each of them! I love you all and am thanking God this morning for you!
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