blessed

If anyone pays attention to what they’re taught, they will succeed. Blessed is the person who trusts in the Lord.

- Proverbs 16:20 (NIRV)

 

Since my family moved south, there are a few phrases that I now hear on a regular basis such as “bless your heart” and “God bless you”.
I have learned that “bless your heart” is not always nice, but often a gentler way of saying “I’m glad it’s you and not me”. 
“God bless you” is sometimes an automatic response to a sneeze. 
Have you ever really stopped to think about your blessings?
In the song “Blessings” by Laura Story, the lyrics resonate with me: 
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

And 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?

And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

We pray for wisdom

Your voice to hear

And 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

And all the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we'd have faith to believe

...

When friends betray us

And when darkness seems to win

We know that pain reminds this heart

That this is not, this is not our home

It's 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

And what if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise?
I once saw a sign that said, “What if you wake up this morning with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”

I think I stopped in my tracks; do I thank Him every day for the many blessing in my life?

I am ashamed to say that I don’t believe that I do.

The verse says, “blessed is the person who trusts in the Lord”.

I DO trust Him, and I believe that I am very blessed.

I hope you feel the same.

 

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