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Every Good Thing


This morning, I tentatively stepped on the scale as I do many mornings while the water warms up in my shower.  It may not be the best practice in the world, but it is something that I am in a terrible habit of doing.  Closing my eyes to not to see the numbers spinning out of control, I wait until the spinning stops.  It feels like an eternity hearing the springs working overtime, spinning…  in reality it is probably just a few seconds.  Looking down, I see a number that surprises me. 

Lately, I have been watching what I eat and every once in a while, working out.  Ideally, I would like to get to the weight that I was when I got married, and my un-realistic goal is to loose weight even then.  The number this morning FINALLY broke the plateau I had been on for years.  I finally broke to the weight that I was before I got pregnant with my first child nearly 5 years ago!  I looked for a solid minute at the number that was looking back at me.  I guess home remodeling and improvement makes you loose weight.

It wasn’t quite the excitement that I was hoping for.  I had been watching and weighing myself for weeks and been watching my weight decrease little by little.  I didn’t notice the big change. 

I have been watching my kids grow daily, but don’t see the big change that has gone on from birth to the age they are at now because I have been watching it all this time.  Sometimes we look with disbelief at the blessings that we have been given.  God has just surprised us with a blessing that we have a hard time fathoming.  Sometimes we don’t see how amazing the blessings are and take them for granted because we have been watching little by little as they have started going on. 

How often do we look at something and not appreciate what it is or has become because we have seen it gradually happening.  We don’t see the success we have because we have been working at it for years and year. 

James 1:
17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. 18 In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

Today, we need to appreciate that every good thing is from the Lord, that our accomplishments are from Him and not by our own successes.  God has given us talents and abilities that we are able to glorify Him with and we should.  He didn’t give us blessings and gifts and talents only to use to bless ourselves, but to bless others and the world.  EVERY good thing is from the Lord.  Amen! 
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