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We live in a world that seems to be dominated by bad or negative news. It would be easy under these circumstances for even the most devoted believer to undergo periods in the Valley considering all life seems to throw at us. It is then more than ever that we must Count Our Blessings. – Mike

by John MacArthur / Friday, September 27, 2019

It’s easy to take God’s blessings for granted. It’s even easier to be unaware of many of them. But Scripture calls all believers to regularly take inventory. That is what the apostle Peter is pointing out when—with a hint of sarcasm— he asks his readers “if [they] have tasted the kindness of the Lord” (1 Peter 2:3).

Of course the believers he was writing to had “tasted the kindness of the Lord”—they were well acquainted with His goodness and grace through their conversion and through the daily blessings He poured out in their lives.

We as believers ought to make a habit of recounting the goodness, kindness, and mercy of the Lord in our lives. We ought to remember, as Paul enthusiastically writes, that,

God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:4–7)

Continued at Source: Counting Your Blessings