Recently, I was thinking about how God has, in His grace, blessed me by giving me five Bibles of my own, which I have accumulated over the years. In many countries like China or Vietnam, our brothers and sisters in Christ rejoice if they have one Bible per community. Many of us have at least five Bibles per household and many of them study Bibles. We don't realize just how much the Lord has blessed us.
So many times we take for granted all the blessing God gives us. We don't stop and thank God for all the beautiful things He has given us ( James 1:17 ). We miss out on the joy of being thankful for His blessings. If we do practice being thankful, our perspective will begin to change and we will become less discouraged about things we may not have and more encouraged by the things we do have. Thankfulness is a command of God ( 1 Thess. 5:18 ). Let's stop grumbling about what we do not have and be thankful for what we do have.
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