How has Jesus Helped You Today?

Verses:  Matthew 8:14-17

My thoughts about the verses:

We often have a hard time answering this question.  How has Jesus Helped Me?  It’s hard because we do not know about all the things that would have happened if God wasn’t there.  It’s hard because we do not know what wouldn’t have happened if God wasn’t there.  We go through life basing how people help us by the reward we have because of something that their intervention directly led to. 

We cannot judge how God has helped us in this manner.  We can’t say this happened because God stopped this from happening in our life.  We cannot say that this happened because God allowed this to happen.  Therefor we spend most of our life not considering what God has helped us with this day.

It is only when we pray for a certain thing to happen or not to happen that we attribute it to God.  We are then willing to say that God helped me accomplish this goal.  We are willing to say God kept this from happening today. 

Yet, what we need to realize is that we do not have to have answered of prayers to see God’s work in our life.  The fact, that you are able to receive this today is a way of realizing how God has worked in our lives.  The fact that this was able to be written for you to read is a mini miracle.  The fact, that people from all over the globe are reading this today is a mini miracle.  In fact, everything that happens in our lives is influenced by God in our life.

Now hold on a second you may be asking how everything in our life can be influenced by God.  There are bad things that have happened does that mean God didn’t like me at that moment.  Everything is influenced because we are all part of God’s creation.  There will be both bad and good.  Yet, sometimes the bad is needed for the best part to be seen.  Other time bad just happens and we have an opportunity to turn it into good if we want to.

Cherish the moments that God has given you.  Thank God for the good things.  Ask God what you need to learn from events.  Look at your life right now and see what God is helping you with today.

Prayer:

We love you God.  We thank you for your grace.  We praise you for all that you have helped us with.  We ask you right now God to help us see your grace and love in all we do.  Help us acknowledge you today for the things that you have done for us.  In the name of the Giver of Life we pray.  Amen

Questions:

How has Jesus Helped You Today?  Have you thanked God for the mini miracles in your life?