Step one, recognize that God provides for all our needs. Step two, come to the Lord in gratitude, not generally or generically, but specifically and individually. Come in joyful reflection, count our blessings. What has God provided? Who has God provided? In faith, what has God provided?
Tying the Lord to everything we have heads off a number of rabbit holes we can go rushing down. The first is the rabbit hole of arrogance that we are somehow responsible for our own stuff. Like it could not be taken away in an instance. The second is the rabbit hole of the blessings becoming their own pursuit. Chasing after money, after things, after approval, after whatever that is not Christ. There is one thing to be pursued in life, and that is the glory of God.
I am blessed that Johnson Oatman says it so much better in “Count Your Blessings”:
1 When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Refrain:
Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your blessings, see what God hath done;
Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
2 Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, ev'ry doubt will fly,
And you will be singing as the days go by. [Refrain]
Pastor Peter
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