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Recognize and acknowledge the Source of all good!

The recipient didn’t recognize the source of her blessings:

She did not know that I gave her corn.

image of a flower and a verse
from Psalm 30:7

Not knowing — seemingly out of willful ignorance — the recipient didn’t acknowledge. Or give thanks. Or humbly recognize the source. So…

Therefore will I return, and take away my corn.

Lessons for me this morning:

  1. Remember the source from Whom all blessings flow.
  2. Give Him thanks.
  3. Accept His unending ownership of all and everything.
  4. Be a faithful steward of what He has given me.
  5. Presume on it and He will take it back.

Are those accurate, legitimate lessons? What do you say? And what do you have to add?

Oh, and here’s the full reading I engaged last night: Continue reading →

Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

His mercy is on them that fear Him. -Luke 1:50

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. -Psalm 31:19,20

If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. -1 Peter 1:17

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. -Psalm 145:18,19

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, . . . and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. -2 Kings 22:19

To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. -Isaiah 66:2

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. -Psalm 34:18

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