Mind Renewers

Just a quick thought today.  There are many small blessings, little gifts, that our Lord gives us which have no real eternal importance, no significance beyond this life or even beyond the day in which He gives them.

The food I just ate tasted very good.  He didn’t have to give my taste buds the ability to enjoy it, and it wouldn’t have been that important if I hadn’t enjoyed the taste.  As long as the meal provided nutrition, my life wouldn’t have been significantly worse in any way — that I liked the taste was just a bonus.

There are many things He gives us like that.  He gives such gifts to us because that’s the kind of God He is — He loves His children.

When we forget that those little gifts are gifts, and come to view them as something we deserve to have, we lose our sense of gratitude, part of our awareness of just how kind our Father is to us.  And THAT is important….

Psalm 68:19

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

John 5:16-17

16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

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Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made….

John 19:30

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished….

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Genesis 2:2

…and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Mark 15:42, 46

42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath….
46 ….And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.