A Thankful Process

Hey All,

Happy Thanksgiving!
Joke's on you! You get to read my cheesy this is what I'm thankful for blog:

This morning I woke up and my throat was full of phlegm and felt like it was on fire, and my head was hurting and felt like a balloon on the verge of popping, and not too mention I woke up at 6:30. What an awful day, I thought. 

Then I was reminded of the people at Kwanzaa Church, a church in the middle of the Mpls Ghetto, a group of people that show up every week and they praise the Lord for breath, at least once a week someone will say that they are happy to be awake, they are experiencing God's blessing through the idea of being awake, they are breathing which reminds them that God is alive and active in them.

So as I rolled of bed I asked myself, "how can I be thankful for today?" and I came to the conclusion that God is alive and active in our lives, as he is in the lives of the Kwanzaa community. We're here, we're breathing, we woke up, and heads up! God is active in your life today, God has been blessing you today, and hold on tight because today he's going to continue to bless you! *Challenge* Today pay attention to the blessings that God has given you.

As I think about how God has blessed my physical body and has spoke life into me today, I can't help but look for God in the spiritual. Again and again I can look at life and feel unsatisfied with who I am, and the lifestyle I am living, even through all the blessing, I'm simply not Good. So I turn to biblegateway.com, and I found this piece of scripture, and now I truly have something to be thankful for. 

2 Corinthians 3:16-18
 ¹⁶ But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate^[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

How blessed am I that there is a God that loves me so much that when I turn to him, he pulls away my veil and allows me to see him more clearly. How blessed am I that our God is alive and active in not only my physical but my spiritual and he has given me freedom of mind, and freedom of spirit. He has given me the power to break free from the bondage of sin, he has poured a life of power and glory into me. How blessed are we?

This thanksgiving I am most thankful that God isn't done with me yet. Through the power of the holy spirit I am being transformed. Greg Boyd spoke of how today we may look like an acorn, but through the spirit we are created to be the oak that the acorn has become. Today I may not look like an oak tree, but I know that everyday God is alive and active in me working to produce a new and perfect me. 

He's calling to produce a new and perfect you, turn to the Lord, let him pull away your veil, and allow God to work in your life as he is working in mine. Because today when you woke up God loved you so much he was alive and active in you, blessing you with life, maybe today is the day for you to turn to the Lord. Be new! Be perfect! Be transformed!

God Bless You
-WIT

Jared