But, is it possible that blessing goes so much further than that? Is it possible that blessings don’t always look like blessings? We are told to rejoice in our sufferings and trials, and to count it all joy when we are ridiculed for Christ’s sake. Even though those seem terrible, aren’t they still blessings from God? Not the things themselves, but the fact that we can rejoice through those things. Is it possible that simply being alive and serving God is blessing enough? If nothing else good ever happened in my life, wouldn’t that be enough? Is my very life a blessing I take for granted most of the time? Instead of thanking God for who He is and the fact that I’m alive and serving Him, I spend my time looking for the next good thing God is going to do in my life.

God has already provided us with everything we need for life and godliness. Don’t get me wrong, I still want to see God move and bless us as the body of Christ abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think. But, I also don’t want to become so focused on those blessings that I take for granted the seemingly more mundane blessings, like provisions for life and godliness. Maybe those “mundane” blessings are actually better than what appear to be bigger blessings.

Good stuff in this post, it made me think.