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Remember God’s blessing

By Bill Harvison
Posted 3/24/22

With the price of gas going up along with everything else, and the unrest in eastern Europe, it is easy to have a bad or negative attitude. Who knows, maybe R.E.M had it right and, “It’s …

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Remember God’s blessing

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With the price of gas going up along with everything else, and the unrest in eastern Europe, it is easy to have a bad or negative attitude. Who knows, maybe R.E.M had it right and, “It’s the end of the world as we know it”.

Yet when I sit down and begin to survey all that I have in this world, I have a lot more to be thankful for than to be negative about. I am in good health, along with my wife and children. I have a nice home, good cars and the golf course opens next month. My 93-year-old stepfather is planting his garden in south Mississippi; we didn’t think he would be here back in July. 

God has surely blessed us. So why is it as soon as something happens in our world we automatically take on the attitude of Chicken Little, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling”?

However, I can choose to look at life and weigh out the blessings of God against the sorrows that I face. Each time I do that, the same thing happens: God’s blessing always wins out.

Yes, gas is high and I have had to change some plans to save money. Yet, God has blessed me with a great job I truly love. I am blessed with a beautiful wife of 18 years and three teenage children whom I love. I can still call my mom and stepdad. I am truly blessed with wonderful in-laws (it does help that they live in Mississippi).

But most importantly I have Jesus Christ as my lord and savior — and no matter how high prices get, wherever wars break out, or even when people die, I will still have Jesus. That makes all the difference. It makes all the difference because God is still God and he is still in control of the gas prices, wars, peace, my life and yours. I have to remind myself of that a lot and that God’s grace is always enough.

I hope you have the grace of God in your life. If not, I would love to share more about it with you.

(Bill Harvison is the pastor at First Southern Baptist Church in Powell.)

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