Day 185: Day 3 of Chase THE Light Project: I can give thanks for everything

Day 3 Chase THE Light Project: I can give thanks for everything.

Good morning and welcome to day 3!  Our verse for today comes from Ephesians 5:20, “Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Sometimes, it can be very hard to give thanks for everything. Am I right? Some things we don’t see as thankful. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer twice…I wasn’t thankful that she had to go through chemotherapy or thankful that she had to go through radiation.  But I could find something to be thankful for each and every day she went through it. She would even tell you that she could find something to be thankful for while going through it.

When the kids are fighting all day, the dishes are piled up, the laundry is not folding itself and I am constantly stepping on legos…I’m not always giving thanks in the moment. To be honest, I’m probably not speaking life to anyone around me either! I have to really stop and focus on the fact that we are truly blessed and in the blink of an eye…there will be no kids in the house fighting, less dishes piled up, hardly any laundry to do, and no legos to step on.

When we slow down and start to really see through His lens, we can give thanks for it all. We have to slow down and see through His lens though…the antidote is in the retina.

“Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightening.” ~Karl Barth

Today, let’s try and keep a list of all that we are thankful for. Each time we write out our blessings, our gifts…it places us in His presence and He gently wakes us up…our light begins to brighten and He gives us kingdom-eyes. 

Chase Him today.