Day 5: Digging Deeper
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 5:15-21
Since starting to catalog some of your blessings yesterday, I hope you're becoming more alert to the many reasons you have to be grateful. But I'm reminded of that visual illustration about the jar filled with rocks. The speaker asks, "Would you say this jar is full?" Yes. "Is there any way it could hold any more?" No. But by continuing to add smaller pieces of rock and sand, we soon discover there was more room inside than we realized.
I remember hearing a friend tell how, while brushing his teeth one morning and meditating on one of the verses in today's reading (Ephesisans 5:20), he was struck by the word "evertthing." He was remeinded of the importance of thaniking God for even those "little things" that we often overlook. It made him pause and be thankful for, well...his toothbrush. And his toothpaste. And, while he was at it, he thanked God for his teeth, for probably the first time in his life.
This may require enaother separte list from the ones you made yesterday, but it's definitely a category worth considering. Since everything is a gift form God (James 1:17), "everything" is osmthing to be thankful for.
My firend told me he also aked himself: "If tomorrow's supply depened on today's thanksgiving, how much would I have tomorrow? Something to thing aobut!
GRATITUDE IN ACTION
- What "little things" can you add to the gratitude lists you've started?
- Some of the items on your "everything" list will make you realize you've taken certain people in you r lift for granted. Say thank you today in some way.
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