BE A “REBEL”

Recently I read a quotation, which made me to stop and think. What it says is not something new. We all know it. It is the way the sentence is framed, and the words that are arranged, that made me to stop and think. I liked it very much. Here is the quote.
– “In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories, and steps, be a rebel and count your blessings instead.” – Lisa Heckman

How true, isn’t it? The world wishes to value certain things. That is the way the world wants to walk. Now as a Christian, how should we be walking? Should we also walk in the ways of the world? Should we be counting our net worth – the possessions we have, the positions we hold, the places we travel to, the people we mix and move around with, and the power we wield? Well they may be achievements for someone else. They may not be bad inherently. 

Now, how about us as Christians? What do we count? We are called to count the things that are very different from the world’s standards. We value love and forgiveness. We value people, and therefore we accept them as they are. They may be wrong, but still, we accept as they are, and love them just like how our LORD loved us, and still loves us.

We count our blessings that money cannot buy. Nay, nothing can buy the blessing that we enjoy through the grace and mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ. What can buy is our salvation? What can buy us the grace and mercy of God? What can buy us the favour of God? What can buy us the protection of God? What can buy us the Providence of God? What can buy us the peace of God, that passeth all understanding? 
– “When you look at others with their lands and gold, Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold; Count your many blessings, money cannot buy Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.” – Johnson Oatman Jr. (1897)

Let us pause on this LORD’s Day, and count all the blessings that we freely enjoy from the hand of the LORD our God. Let us “BE A ‘REBEL'” as the disciple of the LORD Jesus, and count the innumerable and inestimable blessings that we are blessed with, by our loving and kind God. The blessings that we enjoy are precious and priceless; therefore, let us count them one by one…
– “Count your blessings, name them one by one; Count your blessings, see what God hath done; Count your blessings, name them one by one; Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.” – Johnson Oatman Jr. (1897)

Even so, the LORD help us.