Nov 2007

Thank God and thank someone else today. Read Luke 17:12-19. Every day we have
plenty of thoughtful helpful people who help to get us through the day. Just like God
appreciates our thanks they will too.
In the Lord's prayer it says we should forgive others as God has forgiven us. It really
helps to be humbled by the knowledge of how much God forgives us. Try to picture the person you don't want to forgive as the one who greets you at the pearly gates,
saying "Glad you made it" Did I hear an "Ouch?"
There is one shining example of a humble thankful man in the old testament-king
David. He wrote an entire book of the bible full of praise and heartfelt conversations with God. It's his open diary of his relationship with God. Read Psalm 18 an entire chapter of praise to God for his loving care.
I started out with thankfullness. Now let me show you what a humble man David was.
When Saul was chasing him he twice refused to harm "God's anointed king."
Read 1 Samuel 24 and 26. He was recognizing it would be God who made him king,
not his own hand. Also when a man who felt bitter cursed and threw stones at him,
David did not let his soldiers harm him. Read 2 Samuel 16:5-14. Ask if you could have
reacted the same. For your memory verse try Psalm 117:1&2.That's the whole chapter.
Also look up 1 Samuel 13:14, and notice David was "a man after God's own heart."
That's what I want to be!