Being thankful for what we have....hmmm...let's take it a little further to where God begins to give us a quiet, calm, contentment with having less. When he begins to motivate us to action no longer for what more we can have, or buy, or acquire, but because we are satisfied with what we are blessed with and want more so we can do more, be more for others. I am so thankful for the changes God is making in my heart, my attitude.
I see myself sometimes and allow my old nature, self to de-motivate me with how much work and growth I still need physically, emotionally, spiritually, but then I cry out for support from God and He reminds me of all He has done to my thinking, desires, goals, my attitude and heart.
God has given me His spirit when I choose to listen to it and allow it to be in control of me.
He is giving me His wisdom which is so different from my own.
He is growing my desire and call to service, it is getting painful to sit back and watch.
He is redefining Love for me - what I thought it was, and the expectations I put on others. He is showing me through the grace He has showered me with, just how incapable I am to love without Him. He is showing me the action—hands and feet of Love, the spirit love has, what motivates it.
He is making me one with Him.
It is so easy to focus in on just how we are unlike Christ and how far it seems we would have to grow and change to be like Him. I am thankful that because of the price that Jesus paid for us, we are able to house God's spirit and ways as we yield it all to Him.
Thank you for the cross. Thank you for your son Jesus and the price paid for us. Thank you for where you have already brought me and for the  the truth and promises, that give me the hope to know I am growing closer to you each day.  Though I have already given my life to you, thank you for the process of sanctification so that I can share your ways and heart with those just like me...only apart from you.