Thank you, God, for my Salvation!

For obvious reasons, I've been thinking the last couple of days about what I have to be thankful for. Every moment I live, I experience so many blessings from my Father above. For instance, as I'm sitting here typing this, Viviane is standing by the coffee table humming in her cute little way, and she just looked at me a couple of minutes ago and said, "I love you, Mommy." Now, THAT is something to thank my God for. And God has given me a multitude of things to thank Him for in my dear husband Michael. Like, just in the last 2 hours, Michael fixed dinner for our family and cleaned up the kitchen since I'm on bedrest at this stage in my pregnancy. That kind of servanthood exemplified by Michael is yet another blessing for which to thank my Heavenly Father. Yesterday, we had the joy of gathering with part of my family, and one of the wonderful people present was my dear, sweet Mom. God is graciously preserving Mom through chemotherapy right now. Thank you, God, for Mom's health.

Among a plethora of other blessings, I can thank God daily for clothing, shelter, food, good health, sunny days, Viviane's smiles, Michael's kindness, rain, Christian fellowship, a sweet baby girl on the way...I can't even begin to scratch the surface in thanking God for His rich outpouring of goodness to me!

But the major (does that word even do it justice?) theme of my thankfulness this year is my salvation in Christ. God has been graciously and faithfully unfolding before me the wonder of His love to me in Christ and the freedom I have in Christ from guilt and condemnation! He has powerfully used A Gospel Primer by Milton Vincent to awaken in me a deeper understanding of what it means to be clothed in Christ's righteousness and stand before God completely forgiven and free from the penalty of my sin. He has shown me that He loves me as much as He loves His own Son because, in His Son, I am just as much His child as Christ is! I can hardly say enough. "Wow! Incredible! Amazing!" seem too mundane to express the wonder of God's love to me. So, since words will never say enough, I simply say "Thank you, God, for my salvation!"