COUNTING

 

            In the devotional book, A Generous Life, there is a devotion by Joel Mikell titled “Count Your Blessings”.

            We’ve come out of Thanksgiving and started Advent, and we talk about giving thanks, but the culture we live in approaches what we have as not enough. It’s all about more, more, more. If you don’t believe me, look at ads on Facebook, on the internet, on TV and in stores. We need, we want more money, toys, stuff. After all, if we have more, we’ll be happy.

            But is that true? Maybe instead of the amount of stuff we have, happiness comes from something entirely different: maybe how we view what we do have?

            So. Joel Mikell says to count your blessings. He cites two lines from the hymn “Count Your Blessings”:

                        Count your many blessings, name them one by one,

                        And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

            So, do we have enough? Do you?

            Are you caught up in anxiety during the counting? Don’t be. God provides. Remember it’s not the amount of stuff, but our attitude.

            Where is your enough? Who is your enough?

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