Well, the first thing I did this morning when I got to work was flip the month on my calendar. November. It's finally here!
I love November. I love the weather, crisp and cool. I love the smell of November, mulled cider candles burning (or brewing cider on the stove!). I love the sound of November, the crunch of leaves under my feet. I love the sight of November, usually the first real snowfall comes this month. I love the taste of November, thanksgiving meal!
Which brings me to my point: thanksgiving. The blessed day we have set aside to think upon all the things we are most thankful for and all the wonderful food we consume that day. I don't know about you but I can't fit all my gratitude into just one day. I like to try to be thankful everyday, especially during the month of November. For the past few years, I have kept a list of what I am thankful for and add something new each day of the month.
This year, I'm gonna share that list with you!
I want to focus not just on the things God has blessed me with, which is a lot, but I also want to take some time this month to focus on some of the characteristics of God that I am most thankful for. Please join me and I encourage you to make your own list! You'll see just how much God gives to us and it'll help you take time each day to be thankful for something.
So today is November 1st. I think I'm going to start this month off with being thankful for my salvation. Last month I had the privilege to share my salvation testimony. What a blessing! It had been a long time since I had shared my full testimony with someone. It was great.
It made me think back though to how I was before I got saved. I was such a different person. Different, desires, different attitude, different language, different perspective, different goals.
"Therefore, if any many be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17
I am so thankful for the new things He has given me. He gave me a new life, a new mind, a new home in eternity, new desires, new things to say. I'm also thankful that the old things are passed away and gone! Woo hoo! Man, I love that! He didn't have to do that, but He did. Because He's God and He can do that stuff.
So I'm thankful for my salvation. I'm thankful that I accepted His free gift for me and that He took my place and paid my debt of sin so that I wouldn't have to. Amazing!
I'm looking forward to this month! There's so much to be thankful for...I'm just getting started!
Happy November!
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
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