🦃 Bending The Blessings ✝️

God delights in helping us grow in the priceless grace of thanksgiving and gratitude.  Sometimes we go through difficult seasons, and when we do, the Bible instructs us to still praise our Lord—maybe not for the problems, but certainly in the problems.  Just as Paul would learn to glory in his infirmities, many of us have been assigned the same lesson.  However, more often than not, I have discovered that God uses blessing and pleasure to provoke us to a spirit of thanksgiving.

Learning to trace every blessing back to its source reveals the truth about God’s goodness.  Sometimes as the river flows downstream toward the sea, it may get muddy and polluted, but if you trace it back and taste the sweet pure water at the fountainhead of the stream you will see the true nature of the water. If I take a thin piece of aluminum, I will be able to easily bend it in any direction I choose. 

But, sometimes events in my life are not like pliable aluminum, they are more like hardened steel.  They cannot be easily bent.  In such cases, I may need the wise counsel of a Christian friend to help me bend it toward God.  Such is the nature of the victorious Christian life.  We are to bend every blessing, every pleasure, back to God.  This was part of the original function of church steeples, to constantly point us toward God.

Dr. T. D. Worthington invites you to join us for this week’s edition of PathLight.  We will be reminded that it is God’s nature to draw gratitude out of us with blessings; blessings that to achieve their full potential, must be traced back, bent back to God.