blessings

From His abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.

- John 1:16 (NLT)

 

We don’t always recognize the blessings that we receive.

When we are running late to get somewhere and we are held up by traffic, we don’t think that is a blessing, but we need to think that perhaps God is blessing us, the fact that we are late may mean that He prevented us from a tragedy had we been on time. 

When we lose someone dear to us, we don’t always see that loss as a blessing, but we need to remember the blessing we had with them in our life.

Blessings can be disguised.

Song reference!

We pray for blessings

We pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

All the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom

Your voice to hear

We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love

As if every promise from Your Word is not enough

All the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we'd have faith to believe

When friends betray us

When darkness seems to win

We know that pain reminds this heart

That this is not our home

What if my greatest disappointments

Or the aching of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy

What if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are your mercies in disguise

We can be upset about things that happen, but then we need to look for the blessings.

We may not see the blessings right at the moment, but someday looking back we will.  

 

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