While in prayer today at church a Bethel song was playing, if you haven't heard their worship you are missing out. Don't ask me which song was playing though because I'm not 100% sure LOL! However, what I do remember is weeping before the lover of my soul. I remember thinking over my week and how good He was. The favor He showed me. The love He showed me. Then I thought of prior weeks, then my 2014, then when I was saved. My heart broke with such a gratitude. I just had this all consuming thankfulness flood my soul.
As I stood there praying and worshiping my King, I thought to myself what if I ever run out of things to say? What if the praise and thanks ever leaves me? What if a time comes when I "forget" all He has already done? And then He spoke, "If you ever run out, cling to me more because there has been a breech. Somewhere, somehow your focus has been shifted. Somehow you have lost sight of not what I've done but who I am."
And that truth, as thankful as I was for it, broke me even more. I remember times in my walk where I wasn't thankful. Times when I didn't see His goodness. I remember times when all my mind allowed me to see was pain. I couldn't see passed "what was happening to me".
One of my favorite quotes by Charles R. Swindoll says "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it". In other words why not praise through the storms? Why not fight to consciously remember His goodness? And let's not stop there, let's tell of His goodness. If He is really as good as we profess in church and to other believers why not tell non-believers? Why would we not always be caught telling of His goodness? This year I vow to consciously focus on His goodness! I vow to focus on Him, not myself. After all, He has been plenty good enough!
Until Tomorrow,
Kaitlyn
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