I recently got into a relationship with this really cute girl. And though I could tell you how it happened, I won't do it now. What I actually thought was important enough to share with all of you is one of the many things I've learned from my girlfriend in the short time we have been together. I know that all I have can be attributed to God, that I'm nothing without him, but my language doesn't always reflect that.
She always corrects me when I declare that I am lucky. She reminds me that I'm not simply lucky - I'm blessed.
Like I said, my language doesn't always reflect God's presence in my life. It's as if I'm saying that the good things in my life were from random chance and circumstance.
After being corrected a couple of times, the why behind the correction began to bug me. I began to make a conscious effort to have all of my being reflect God - and I started to make sure to say that I'm blessed. And I have been.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I've had some huge, earth-shattering experience, but I will tell you this: it is important that, in everything we do, we reflect the awesomeness that is God.
If someone who wasn't Christian heard me talking about how lucky I am, I would have lost an opportunity to be a light of Christ to the world. Little things always add up and turn into bigger things. If I go around instead saying how I'm so blessed, I'm at least pointing at God.
Everything we do should point to what Jesus has (and continues to) done in our lives. Unfortunately, I am also a human being, so I do a lot of stupid stuff that points to nothing. I have not given up hope that God is working in me and through me -- and you shouldn't either.
Do you consider yourself as being lucky or blessed? Apart from acknowledging God's blessings, how else can we demonstrate our God's work?
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