THANKFUL FOR THE JOURNEY?
It's that time of year when Facebook posts turn to daily lists of what we're thankful for and countless art projects are brought home with scribblings of the same. And as we draw near to that fateful turkey day, I can't help but remember something that Priscilla Shirer said at the beginning of our Bible Studay, "One in a Million."
In talking about the Israelite's sojourn in the wilderness, Priscillas says that when we are all going through a wilderness season it's hard to see anything to be thankful for in the midst of the sand, rock and heat.
BUT...once we reach the other side, it's the looking back at what God has brought us through that brings us to that place of thankfulness.
Even Job, who had lost his family, his business and his health and had been tempted by his friends to curse God, was able to say in the end "I have hear of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You." (Job 42:5.)
At the end of his wilderness season, he chose to be THANKFUL that he had had the opportunity to move from a place of just hearing about God's amazing grace, to a place where he had experienced it first hand.
There were things in his life that he would never have had or never have learned had he not gone through what he had gone through and come out the other side with his faith intact.
So, what's your wilderness? Are you in a wilderness right now or trying to find the good in a wilderness you've just come out of?
During this season, take the time to be thankful for the journey God has you on. And remember, "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Those plans are plural....God's got a lot written in your book.
God Bless and Have a Blessed Thanksgiving.
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