Thank God for your life

MANY times we might slip into the error of being ungrateful. Usually there is the tendency to focus on what is not happening and turn a blind eye to what is happening. The syndrome of looking at a glass as half empty rather than it being half full is prevalent. Also we are more prone to focusing on things, events and situations rather than on ourselves.

Our lives are more Morgantown than any other thing. It is only the living that can accomplish things so once we are still alive there is hope. We are alive and we must be grateful. This is a feat we must never take for granted. Many who started last year with us are not with us today not because they didn’t want to, but they just couldn’t make it. If we have had the privilege to wake up and be alive we must be grateful. We must see it as a fresh opportunity given us by God to have a new beginning. The most precious thing we all have in life is being alive and the fact that you are reading this article at this time means you are alive. We need to be grateful for the gift and privilege of being alive. To be alive is not a right but a privilege.

As long as we have life there is always hope. There is nothing as a hopeless person. No matter what has happened in the past, the fact that we have the grace of life means there is hope for us. We can still live our dreams. We can still have our expectations become a reality. We can still reach our goal. “There is hope only for the living. It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion!” Ecclesiastes 9:4

The truth of the matter is that things could have been worse than they have been. Many people are worse off than you so brace up and get going. There is a very thought provoking saying that we must regularly ponder on. It is attributed to a Persian poet- “I cried because I had no shoes until I met the man that had no feet”. Count your blessings one by one and it will surprise you what God has done.  Many times, we focus on what has not happened and we are blinded to what we have. If we are to have our lives count we must be a grateful people. We must have an accurate perspective of the past and a right approach to the future. Our future is bright and full of potential for exploits. Today is the beginning of the best days of our lives. There is no point brooding and crying over what happened yesterday. Yesterday is gone and gone forever and all we have now is today. We must approach life with a positive mindset.

We must understand that we cannot look forward and look back at the same time. It is time to move forward by looking forward. It is not over yet. We must keep moving on.

What we see is most likely what we will get. If we see doom and gloom then the year will be full of calamity, frustrations and disappointments. If, on the other hand, we see possibilities we are more likely to have a better life. Beloved, we must not look down on ourselves nor look around and be discouraged but we must look up and expect the very best.

The fact that we are alive is a simple sign that God has not finished with us yet. There are many territories to conquer in our lives so let’s look forward with unbridled hope. Let us thank God for the gift of life .

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