Overflowing Thankfulness

So, then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
-Colossians 2:6-7


Heavenly love.
Here on earth.

We remember when we were bonded to brokenness. Destined for darkness. Falling into fear. Lost, crying in the wilderness. There was nothing we could do. Nothing that could save us from the punishment from our sins. We felt hopeless. Ruined. We burned with a branding of our burden.

But You would not let us go. You would not release Your grip on our hurting hearts. So You stepped across the barrier between heaven and earth, touched the ground with two toe-filled, sandaled feet and set forth with determined purpose to the cross at Calvary.

Our freedom for Your bruises. Our place as royal children for Your pierced lungs and punctured heart. Out of the glory filled tabernacle of Your throne You humbled Yourself to become the Lamb of sacrifice.

You extended Your mighty hand to reach and pull us from our pain, from the blackness and endless depths we’d plunged into. Blessed are You, the Reviver and Restorer of our hopeful souls, our voices that sing with sweetness once again!

It was a choice. We fell, we deliberately demanded to walk our own way. We were stained with filth, far from Your holy harmony. You could have left us as we were, could have wiped us away and started over. But You didn’t. You wanted us with You, so You moved to us, extended a branch of beauty for us to grab hold of and bloom into Your heart, alive and vibrantly, forever.

Your love.

The perfect gift. The greatest blessing. The hallelujah of our hearts.

So overwhelming, this soft life flowing through our veins. We are breathless at best to express our surging souls. May You be seen in all we speak, all we do, so our stories will be overflowing with thankfulness to Your great and inexpressible grace that has come to ignite the ashes inside us into a continual firestorm of faith.


Prayer:
Lord, Your grace and goodness given to us for our salvation is the greatest blessing we can be thankful for, not only this Thanksgiving season, but each day of the year. You have taken us and restored our hope, our dreams, our love. Thank You are two words that sound so small in comparison to the greatness of Your name and character, but I use them with the sincerest sound of my heart. I am grateful that You look down at me and still love me, still want me by Your side. Please do not let me forget, and help me show the world Your goodness and mercy. Amen.