Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart!

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire

Hebrews 12:28-29

In this season of Thanksgiving. .

I can not help but consider. .

how my life and my heart have changed over the course of a year.

I am a different person. .

Just as most of you are probably different as well!

This was going to be a little post about all the things that I am thankful for. .

which are many. .

But. .

As I tried to choose a scripture that I wanted to share today. .

The Lord just grabbed me by the depth of this verse from Hebrews. .

and I just can't get beyond that today!

So. .

My post took a bit of a different turn. .

If you are in a hurry today. .

Come back later. .

because I want you to read it slowly. .

and truly consider. .

Look around friends. .

Check out our world. .

Extraordinary tsumamis. .

Devastating earthquakes. .

incredulous acts of terrorism. .

Shifts in the weather system causing excessive droughts. .

as well as extreme variations in climates!

Frightening changes from what we understand as "normal."

Look around at the cultures. .

People are caught up in all sorts of wickedness. .

We live as if there are no consequences. .

Morals and values have slipped away. .

Selfishness runs rampant. .

So many of us SAY we believe in God. .

but we place our FAITH in ourselves. .

what WE can do, how WE can do it. .

misguiding our OWN selves from the real Truth. .

The One who IS Truth. .

How long can it go on??

Some will say. .

not much longer!!

Only He knows for sure. .

but it seems that the labor pains are underway!

So today. .

I am GRATEFUL. .

for THE Kingdom. .

that CANNOT be shaken!

I have read the Book. .

I KNOW how it ends!!

God's people. .

Those that have TRULY received Him (John 1:12; Colossians 2:6)

will win. .

An eternal life. .

And the rest. .

Those who have disregarded Him. .

those who chose to put themselves in a higher place of honor than Him. .

those who never made the time to find out WHO He really is. .

will be consumed by the fire.

If you can't remember the last time that YOU were truly still. .

to KNOW God was in charge. .

Truly still to be IN AWE of Him. .

Truly still to consider the magnitude of Him and His work. .

I encourage you. .

No. .

I challenge you. .

to

Be Still. .

And KNOW that HE is GOD (Psalm 46:10)

Don't just be thankful this week. .

If God is saving YOU. .

Find the gratitude in your heart. .

and offer it to Him FROM your heart as worship. .

TODAY!

Because if there is one thing I have become acutely aware of in the last year. .

It is that. .

TODAY. .

is the only thing we can be sure of!

God bless you all. .

and a Happy Thanksgiving to you!!