Count Your Blessings!

July 23, 2009 by Milton Kamwendo
Filed under: Unleashing Greatness 

Life is so rich and abundant. There is enough for all of us and a lot more that can still be tapped. However, when you look around your life this statement may look like an insult especially in moments of personal challenge. It is true – there is abundance all around us. The key to our individual greatness is to start appreciating and recognising this abundance. The first step in this quest is to count your blessings. To sincerely appreciate what you are and have. If you can not appreciate what you have you shut the door to receiving more. This is why praising and worshipping God should be at the centre of all that we do.

What do you have?
None of us is so poor that they have nothing! Sometimes because we spend our time looking out of the window comparing ourselves to other people, we forget to appreciate and enjoy what we have. There is an old story of a man who was so angry with God that he had no shoes. Then one day while walking in his village he met a man who had no feet. This experience changed him as it made his own misery a mere joke.

Look around your life. Look at what you have and thank God for each one of these things. If you can, write down as many things that you have and you will be surprised how much you have! Thank God for all the things that you have. This frees you to receive more and it delivers you from looking at other people for your self worth.

Who are you?
Thank God for who and what you are. Thank God for your skin colour and for the race into which you were born. Some people may not like your race, colour or tribe. None of us chose the circumstances into which you were born. I sincerely believe that each of us is born where we were born for a divine purpose. Our worth is not based on any comparison with other people. Our worth is in finding our purpose and pursuing it.

We may not choose the circumstance of our birth but we can choose the circumstances of our lives. Poverty, riches, joy, misery, smallness or greatness are all choices, all of which are within our reach.

What have you received?
All of us come into the world naked and with nothing. When we leave, regrettably, we cannot carry anything out of this world. We are all stewards of the things that we have received. In 1 Corinthians 4 verse 7, Paul asks, “What makes you better than anyone else? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? If all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?”

We need to be grateful for the things that God has placed into our stewardship. These include money, talents, relationships, jobs, resources, or businesses. Jeremy Tailor once said, “It is usually not so much the greatness of our troubles as the littleness of our spirit that makes us complain”. Sometimes we complain about the very things that if taken away we would mourn for a lifetime. Blessings at times are like oxygen, it is when they stop coming that we start appreciating them. God forbid that we ignore the blessings on which we are sitting!

Peter Honey’s wise words should be etched into our spirits. He said, “There are two things one should never delegate; you own learning and saying thank you!” Look through everything that you are and have today. You will agree, we can all say to God, “Thank you, thank you and thank you!”

Appreciate who you are and who you are becoming. Be grateful for what you have but do not park there! There is an abundant greatness waiting for you yonder.

To your greatness

Milton Kamwendo

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