2012 - Year of Thanks Giving

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.                                                                                      (Psalm 100:4)

Yesterday, when Pastor asked Ani to thank GOD, for two blessings in 2012, before the whole church, she had a tough time to prioritize it from the extremely big list we had. For a normal person, she might have looked like a crowd fearing lady (Those who know her will not be having this impression anyway). But I was happy to see her confused and, I really knew why. 

That is the reason why I gave this post heading as ‘2012 – Year of Thanks Giving’. Spiritually / personally / financially / Professionally, HE gave us a great year, betterment in all areas of our life. It will be a great wrong part, if I am not glorifying HIS blessings now. 

I’ve been in between a large number of people, who had their own views about life. I had a view about myself. But realized that it’s not our views that makes the life a blessing, but aligning with Jesus views, makes that big difference. Learned that golden fact that I cannot go with the rule of the world, but with the rule of God’s kingdom, which are quite opposite (and strange) what the world has. That was the greatest blessing for me this year.

There happened an interesting instance last week, which helped to realize one of HIS blessings. Now it is the time for proof submissions for tax benefits. We were discussing in office, about different ways to avail tax benefits and I saw one of my colleagues with much happiness on his face when it came to the medical bills. Why because he had a huge medical bill to submit this year (He survived from a major accident). 

I did not have any medical bills. But my heart was so happy to give all the tax to the government, because my LORD protected me & my family from those kind of situations. Is that the tax you save makes you happy or the blessings? For me it’s surely his love & care…

Beautiful fellowships / relationships, promotions, recognition's  cars, international trip, forgiveness, support and for whole lot of other reasons that I cannot even count, I THANK MY LORD JESUS for a wonderful 2012…

A note for my dear ones:

If I have hurt you some way, knowingly or unknowingly, I ask for your forgiveness. God forgave me a lot of times. I would have done the same to my dear ones…

Have a blessed & fantastic year ahead!

- Anoop