"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. {He has made everything beautiful in its time.} He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Saturday, January 7, 2012

In EVERYTHING


"In everything, give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
-1 Thessalonians 5:18
Two words really convict me in this verse: "in everything."
Believers (and I know myself personally!) often do not apply this verse. Complaining has become a "respectable" sin...just read some statuses on Facebook!
"In everything, give thanks"...means that I am grateful for:
My food.
My job.
My boss.
The weather.
My teachers.
My assignments.
My grades.
Other people's successes.
My relationship status.
The season of life I am in.
[Some of these definitley made me say "ouch," by the way].
It means that {IN EVERYTHING} I should be giving thanks...because even when something is hard, unpleasant, or not what I had planned...God planned it and He will grow me through it, if I respond rightly.

In everything, give thanks!

"As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain."
-C.H. Spurgeon
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