Count Your Blessings

What do you do when life sucks and you feel like your life is going nowhere? You count your blessings.

In Philippians 4:11, the apostle Paul spoke of being content or satisfied in whatever he had. He understood that he was a soldier of Christ, and as a soldier, hardships were normal for him. He had to endure and rest his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ even if he didn't understand. There simply was no other way.

Perhaps there doesn't seem to be a way out for you today. Life is hard. Life is difficult. Everybody seems to be better off than you are. Think of it this way: You are a child of God, and as God's child, you are open to Satan's attack. Satan wants you to lose your faith in God. The devil wants you in hell with him when the time comes.

So here's what you do: when you face difficulties and trials too hard for you to bear, remember who you are in Christ and start counting all the many times that Jesus bailed you out. Jesus might not have bailed you out immediately, but I am sure whatever hardship or difficulty you had in the past turned out to be a blessing in the long run. So think back and strengthen yourself in what the Lord has done for you in the past. And think ahead to the time when all of these things will make sense to you. I am one hundred percent certain that God will make you realize that through it all, He had His eye on you and that He kept sending you help along the way so that you'll keep to the right path of keeping your faith and trusting Him.

My two cents worth...