But TRUTH ~
Your blog today brought to my remembrance something I read just last week so I looked for it and found it. It was titled "The Secret's in the Thanks". It was about a woman (true story)going to a memorial service for her "Aunt Martha" who had been a missionary in China, she felt a calling since childhood. She broke off a four-year engagement to a young doctor when he chose to stay in the US and she went to China to be a missionary. The neice had a deep desire to find out what "drove" her closer and closer to God so as to spend her whole life as a missionary telling the lost about Christ, living a lonely life, and especially as far away as China. Since her aunt Martha was not alive to tell her these things she hoped at the memorial she would meet people that knew her well and they would give her the insight she desired so deeply. She had heard aunt Martha stories all her life of such a Godly woman who knew no way but God's way. At the memorial service she listened to all the people and took in all the details about aunt Martha. However; instead of a wise and miraclous revelation, she learned that aunt Martha's secret to a Godly life was this: She let God shape her path, and never forgot to thank Him for each new day, even when she found herself where she didn't want to be and in situations she didn't want to be in. Surely it couldn't be that easy and simple!! It was simply, "Thank God for each new day." She learned that her aunt Martha quoted aloud every day one of her favorite verses from the Bible, mostly out of the book of Psalms. Her very favorite they said was "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" Psalms 118:24. The neice returned home with a new task in her heart. Each and every day, no matter what day it was, she began to thank God for each new day. It was sinmple, for in the act of thanking God she began to be more aware of His presence. "Little blessings, like hidden jewels began to shine brighter." The woman who seemed larger than life had lived by such simple rules: Love God, thank him for everything, and do what you can to glorify him in WHATEVER place you find yourself. She wrote "Now there is a sense of anticipation, of waiting with expectation for the blessings God has planned for each new day".God in Heaven, help us to look forward to each new day with this outlook, as our life really is "but a vapor" here one minute gone the next, may we proudly accept each day as a gift from God and see all there is to see in that day, and feel all you have for us, Lord may we live our life simple yet Godly in Your sight.Amen
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