When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. Count your blessings, name them one by one, Count your blessings, see what God has done! Count your blessings, name them one by one, Count your many blessings, see what God has done. And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
Johnson Oatman, Jr., pub.1897

Regularly I find myself complaining about one thing or the other and typically I sort of feel entitled to my own grumblings.  This time around this question popped in my head, “what are you thankful for?”

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7 Then he showed me another vision. I saw the Lord standing beside a wall that had been built using a plumb line. He was using a plumb line to see if it was still straight. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I answered, “A plumb line.” 8 And the Lord replied, “I will test my people with this plumb line. I will no longer ignore all their sins.
Amos 7:7-8 (NLT )

This morning whilst reading about the prophet Amos, God highlighted this word to me; plumb line. God showed Amos a series of visions of His judgement on the people of Israel and the plumb line was one of the vision Amos saw. God told Amos He will use the plumb line to show that the Israelites were out of line. God revealed to me that we also have the plumb line as our measurement for how we do the life He has given us.

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