"Dear God, thank you for making so many wonderful things for me to enjoy, and thank you for loving me most of all. Amen."Michelle Medlock Adams, How Much Does God Love You?
I love this prayer. My wife reads it to our fifteen-month-old child almost every night, yet I never quite grasped the full meaning of it until last night. God gave us life so we may enjoy it. He made everything on earth for us, because He loves us. He created an amazing world, full of things that we may enjoy. He created a universe of wonders for us, so we may wonder at His Glory and praise Him; yet we go through our every day life ignoring all these things, focusing on our problems and lack.
"There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind." Ecclesiastes 2:24-26, ESV
There is so much out there for us to enjoy, let us start looking at what we have instead of what we don't. Let us start looking for, and finding, enjoyment in life, and praising Him for it.
"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24, ESV
Father, thank you for this piece of revelation. Thank you for changing our hearts and attitudes so we can start looking for those things in life that we can enjoy, and start trusting you with the other parts of life that cause us pain and fear. Thank you for how good you are. Thank you that we can trust you with our very lives. Thank you that you love us infinitely and, in your wisdom and power, you protect and guide us. Amen.
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