Thank You God

This amazing gift of warm weather has really elevated my state of thankfulness over the past weeks. I love warmth and I love sunshine. (I am my father's daughter.) There are so many small things that have recently brought a smile to my face.

Seeing motorbikes, convertibles with their tops down, flowers still blooming, zucchini still producing, the dog poking his head out of the window in our moving vehicle, having a freezie as a refreshing snack in Fall, evening fires and smores, long walks wearing t-shirts and shorts, sitting outside to read, having to throw off my duvet at night, enjoying a thanksgiving picnic and wearing flip flops! The list could go on and on. God is good in so many ways.

Last night I was reading "Life Together" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Something I have wanted to do since he was quoted in the Psalms of Ascents Bible Study last Fall. Here is a quote that got me thinking on my level of thankfulness on the tail end of Thanksgiving weekend.

Bonhoeffer also said, "God is the God of truth, not the God of emotions."

I had to think on this for a minute because God has created us with emotions and He himself shows His understanding to us by His display of emotions in the Bible. However, what the author intends is that we know that we cannot be run by our emotions. Reacting and living by our emotions will cause us to run from God every time He calls us to something outside our comforts and dreams. We need to base our life on Truth. It is only since I have started believing what God's word says as truth that I can truly overcome the daily struggles I have. Often struggles of response and fears.

I am deeply thankful to God for His ways – that they are not our ways.

I am thankful that God is my salvation. He has saved my life and He continues to deliver me daily from unbelief, lack of self control, lack of love...

I am thankful for His abounding love which is greater than all I can imagine and greater than my condemning heart.

Thank you God that you are a God of Truth.