Ever So Thankful

Dearly beloved, how could we enter a new day without being filled with thankfulness for all that God did and continues to do for us and in us through the Christ?

Remember who you were before God saved you through the Christ, and then thank Him for all that He freely gave you with him. Our Heavenly Father shows us such great grace, and He says that He will continue to display the exceeding riches of His grace to us from the time that Christ gathers us unto him in the air, throughout the ages to come, and furthermore, this display will be shown with His loving kindness and tender mercy.
Just think, right now we know that we are saved and have eternal life. We have the spirit of God born within us and we can manifest it for godly profit. “The one and same spirit energizes all these manifestations distributing to each person individually even as he wills.”

Dearly beloved, God does not use us or possess us; He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. He energizes His spirit in us to provide the profit we so desperately need in this life. I would call that exceeding great grace, wouldn’t you?
Oh, how thankful we ought to be to Him for His great grace. We live in the administration of the grace of God, the administration of the mystery. By grace we are saved through believing in Christ and that God raised him from the dead. That salvation is from God, it is not of ourselves; it is the gift of God! We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus upon his good works. Talk about grace…!

God, our Father, has conformed us to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn of many brethren! What a family we are part of now! Our Father planned this for us, beloved. He called us, He justified us, and He will glorify us together with the Christ! He is for us beloved! He did not even spare His own Son but delivered him up for us; how will He not with him freely give us all things? Be thankful.
“We know that in everything God works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.” Don’t ever doubt it. He is faithful to His Word. Live in thanksgiving.

There is no more condemnation, and nothing will ever separate us from God’s love for us in Christ. We are complete in him, filled with all in all of us. Be thankful.
After the Lord Jesus Christ gathers us unto him in the air, a period of judgment and wrath will begin on the earth; but, beloved, we have been judged in Christ as righteous, and we have been delivered from the wrath to come. We will not undergo judgment with the world; we will be at rest with Christ in glory.
Dearly beloved, live with thankfulness for all He has done for us. The world will be the world; sons of God should live as sons of God. Live in the grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of receiving the glory of God. Be thankful for the great grace our Father has shown us in Christ.