There are a lot of things in my life that I am so thankful for. My family, my friends, my home, my dog, my roommate, my boyfriend, food, and the ability to sleep in a warm cozy bed just to name a few, but there's one thing that I am most thankful for, and that's God's love and grace.
It just overwhelms me how much God loves me. How could God love me, a sinner, who on a daily basis turns away from him, hurts him, and disobeys him. I am nothing but dust, and I do nothing for God. Looking back just on this week I lose count of how many times I have knowingly and willingly sinned against God. And I'm sure I did even more sins that I didn't know about. How many times have I told God that I am going to get right with him, only to turn around 2 seconds later and sin again. How many times have I failed to communicate with God through reading His Word and through prayer? And yet, God still loves me, and that just overwhelms me.
God is our Father, and like a parent, he loves his children unconditionally. Even though we may disobey him and turn our back on him, he is still standing in the doorway, holding his arms out, ready to receive us again. Though we may break His heart over and over again, He still has much love to pour out on us. Isn't that crazy amazing??
God will never leave us or forsake us. That's powerful for me to hear, especially as I am someone who has witnessed several people close to me just walk out of my life. I live in constant fear that one day I am going to unintentionally press the buttons that will make the people close to me not want to have anything to do with me. It's crazy wonderful knowing that I don't have to worry about that with God. That God, the One who is the most important, the One who provides the most love, is not going to ever have that button pushed.
What's even more amazing is how much grace God shows us! Grace is getting what we don't deserve. We don't deserve to wake up each morning, we don't deserve the next breath we will take, we don't deserve anything but burning in hell right now, and God has saved us from that. Not only that, His grace is shown with the blessings that he has poured out in our lives. To sit here and count the blessings of just today, I would run out paper and time!
To me at least, I feel God's love and grace through some of my friends too. I'll be the first to admit that I am not the best friend in the world. I don't love and care for my close friends as much as I should. I annoy them from time to time. I've done things that would probably make a good amount of my friends walk away from me, and yet they haven't. My best friends are still by my side, still loving me, even after I have hurt them, frustrated them, or turned away from them. Now that's gotta be the power of God!
So as I am thinking about the things that I am thankful for, I am definitely making sure to send up lots of praises and thanks to God, for his everlasting and abundant love and grace!
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