Happy Thanksgiving!

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.

I find it REALLY hard to count my blessings-especially when things are going tough. Even when its hard to count blessings-there seem so few, we always have something to be thankful for. "Every good and perfect gift comes from above." So, we need to look around us and thank God for all He provides. Right? God also gave us His one and only Son. To die...for us...sinners...now we can live with the PERFECT FATHER. We didn't ( and don't) deserve it, but God...the PERFECT KING is offering us a gift...THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE. He's offering this to all of us. Thats something to be thankful for! Look at the other gifts He gives us. Maybe He has given you something He hasn't given me, or vice versa.

However, He has blessed all of us in one way or another.

God Gets His Point Across!

Going through high school is quite the venture! Right now, it is quite frustrating as a matter of fact. Grades I guess stress me out when they're not where I think they should be. The other day, while in speech, we were supposed to sit according to our favorite Bible verse. I came up with one, and didn't know where it was found. My teacher was able to help me out and I was able to find my seat. Today, I looked at the "verse of the day," and guess what?!?! Of course, it was the one God had brought to my mind yesterday. It seems to be such a powerful verse for "right now." I was delighted to be able to find exactly where it was found and read the entire passage. It is so good! Here it is.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made
perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,
so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I
delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Just as 1 Corinthians 1:9 says, "God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful." He will lead and guide and "hammer into my head" what He knows I need to do, or hear and believe.

He is my lighthouse, in whom I may always trust-He will guide and lead my "safely home by His good grace."