Let’s venture back to the difference between counting your blessings and thanksgiving. Counting blessings entails two activities. The first thinking about what you are happy about. What people, things, places and activities you are glad exist in your life? You focus on what pleases you. You focus on what makes your life happy.
Thanksgiving changes the focus to what God has done in your life. Look towards those time in your heart of heart when you know God brought blessings into your life. Yesterday, we redirected what we are meditating upon from general blessing to those times we know God acted directly in our lives.
Today it goes from inside to outside. David says we are to share with others what we know God has done for us.
Okay, back to our Leper.
Luke 17:15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
So we have our healed leper running down the road praising God and shouting for everyone to hear what God has done for him. Not one person passing by would not have know what Jesus had done. But notice something else. The 10 Lepers know to cry out to Jesus for help. They know he can heal them. How would they know this if someone hadn’t been talking about what Jesus had done?
How often do you tell someone about what Jesus has done in your life. Not share the gospel with them. Not tell them to come to church. Not tell them the stories in the bible. Do you tell them what He has done in your life?
I don’t. God acts in my life. He accomplishes mighty works and I know they are from God. But I seldom if ever share these big and small miracles with people. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like the right time. At other times, I don’t believe people will believe me. I know the truth, but I am sure it sounds wild to others. Most of the time, it just never crosses my mind to tell my stories.
God demonstrates His power in our lives through life saving giant miracles (and I have had those in my life) but just as often, He simply places a kiss on our cheek. These are small moments when God acts and you know it was Him. A God kiss touches your heart, answers a real need and lets you know he cares about you in the little things.
Since today is about making his deeds known. I will tell you about the most recent God Kiss.
A few months back I had a period of total ditziness. In about a three month period, I lost two separate credit cards. I sent to have the first one replaced, but my monthly payments were on the second card. I just did not want to have to redo all those accounts. Not a life or death situation. I watched the account no one was charging on it.
Now doing everything that is wrong, I spent about a week going back to every place I had used the card around the time it disappeared. Nothing. Then I prayed to God to get me out of this jam.
As a last ditch effort. I returned to the place where I thought I had lost the card. I had called this place immediately after I realized it was gone. But they had not found it.
Pulling up at the little store-filling station combination, I locked my car door and went inside. The people in the store searched everywhere but it was no where to be found. I accepted it was time to give up and do what adults do. I needed to report it lost and change all the auto pay accounts.
I unlocked the car door and settled into my seat. My heart sunk. I just didn’t want to have to face this problem right now. Not a big issue. Nothing of even great consequence would happen if I didn’t find the card. It just frustrated me.
Then God gave me a kiss on the cheek. I went to buckle the seatbelt. You know that step you take every time you drive. Now a week after I lost it, my credit card set across the latch of my seatbelt. I could not latch the belt without removing it.
I knew God did it. I knew God gave me a ‘here is something to make your day better’ miracle.
But I don’t tell people because I assume they won’t believe me. They will argue that someone had my card. They kept it but did not use it. I some how forgot to lock my car even though I thought I had. This person heard me ask about the card. They still had it on them, but did not want to just say it was in a drawer or back behind the counter or anything like that. But they snuck to my car. They chanced someone seeing them open my car door. They then slipped the credit card on the seat belt latch so I would find it..
If all that happened, and I find this scenario is a stretch, or if God just made it appear, it was a God kiss that brighten my day and my week I praised God all day for his helping me. But I sure didn’t share His deed until now.
Exercise
Tell someone about something personal God has done in your life. Or write about it on one of the social media pages.
Play list
I Love To Tell The Story Barbara Mandrell Precious Memories
I was going to put “I’m So Happy and Here’s the Reason Why” , but it is hard to find versions of this one.
Fourth Day Adventures 