In the spirit of Thanksgiving week, I felt it good to consider some things for which I personally am most thankful to God for.  My hope is that by way of remembrance, we can all be encouraged with the great love that God has lavished on us all in salvation.

Psalm 14:2-3 “The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.  They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

Hebrews 3:12-15 – “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

So today, my encouragement to my own soul and hopefully yours, is that if we hear the voice of God, we should rejoice.  God does not owe us His pursuit of us, but it is an overflow of His love towards us.  It is not chance, it is not your own “good choice or will”, it is literally the calling of God, the Holy Spirit, upon your life, if you are aware of your sin, and turn away from it and towards God.  The voice of God flows from the love of God, and is a mercy to those of us with ears to hear it.  Do not lament what earthly things may be “lost” in following the voice of God, but consider the eternal weight of glory in perfect love for eternity that awaits us with God through Christ Jesus.

Phillippians 3:13b-14 – “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Grace and Peace,

Adam