Church Life

What Are You Counting?

February 28, 2011 /

This post is simple, and I am asking for your help in the comments.

We often sing the words to the song “Count Your Blessings.” The song reminds us that we will struggle at times, but that we need to continually seek to be thankful for the various ways in which God has blessed us.

I know many people who are struggling right now. They are struggling in many areas of life: spiritually, relationally, financially, health-wise, and in other ways. They need a pick-me-up. One of those ways is to be reminded of some things to be thankful for.

So…….

leave a comment. What blessings are you counting today?

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7 Comments

  • Cindy Tatum

    February 28, 2011 at 11:39 AM

    I count as the biggest blessing, to live in a country and time where education to aquire reading skills are free. Put with that the Bibles are readily available (I’ve bought them for a quarter at yard sales). I have been in countries where one or both of these freedoms, in my lifetime, were not available for its people. The comfort and assurance of opening the Bible to receive just what we need from our heavenly Father is beyond compare. With prayer and a Bible in our hands we always have direct two-way communication with the Creator of the universe.

  • Mark

    February 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM

    I’m thankful for struggles, because they teach me just how much I need God’s help. On the other side of them, my faith has grown stronger.

  • Miranda Graham

    February 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    The biggest blessing in my life is by far my family. Having people I can count on to be there for me is the greatest feeling ever. The family that I have now isn’t my blood family but God placed them in my life and proved that blood isn’t what makes a family. It’s more of a common love of God. That’s why God made the church – to be a support and a family for everyone. 🙂

  • David Shearer

    February 28, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    Blessings come incognito and to some may seem insignificant but when one sees the heart behind the statements it makes one consider ones own humility. These folk know and knew what it meant to be converted.

    “…I can’t go door knocking, but do you think it will be OK to come and sit at the building maybe I can be of some encouragement to someone.”

    “I don’t have any money to help with the food for the campaign. Can I bring food instead and help that way?”

    From someone in the hospital…”I’m going crazy in here can you bring some bulletins for me to fold?” You do only to get a phone call later saying, “I need some more bulletins I have given these all away.”

    “Please promise me that my funeral will be at the building, that way maybe someone will come who has never been to our church and will come back and they can have a chance to go to heaven, too.” Her funeral was at the building and one did come who had never been there before. Today he is one of the most active members of the congregation.

    When I see the faith of others and their love for souls one cannot help but count it as a blessing. Somehow it makes life’s speed bumps smoother.