Thanksgiving

I started this blog because I wanted to remind myself to be grateful and thankful for God.  And I think that God has made it easier for me to be more grateful and thankful through this blog - to the point where I don't need to post as much to remind me to be grateful and thankful.  So I guess the dwindling number of posts is a good thing (for me, but perhaps not for you, my readers). 

Anyways.  It's Thanksgiving.  I am so very very thankful for God.  And for you, for taking the time to read my musings.

Thank you: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." - 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Thank You: "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.  Amen."  - Jude 1:25

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

It's that time of the year again!  Thanksgiving!  Christmas!  New Years!

It's always around this time that God asks me to make a choice - to either continue being depressed, or to focus on Him and His joy.  Around October, I start getting a bit down - the weather is turning cold, the days are getting shorter, and work usually ramps up (trying to finish things before the end of the year).  Thank God there are so many amazing holidays (well, American holidays anyways) during this time period.  The holidays remind me that He's my rock, my glory, the lifter of my hands.

Desiring God

"Christian Hedonism is much aware that every day with Jesus is not "sweeter than the day before."  Some days with Jesus our disposition is sour.  Some days with Jesus, we are so sad we feel our heart will break open.  Some days with Jesus, we are so depressed and discouraged that between the garage and the house we just want to sit down on the grass and cry... Normal Christian life is a repeated process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to Satan's attacks." - Desiring God by John Piper

Change that sentence to "between the apartment door and the elevator door, we just want to lay down on the floor and cry" and that pretty much sums up the last few days. 

"For He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and He has not hidden His face from him, but has heard, when he cried to Him." - Psalms 22:24

Time to fight back - with the only weapon I have - the Word of God.