"IF"

    Can I be happy and blessed all the time?  What would be your first thought if I said "Yes!"?  Let's put it another way:  Give praise in every circumstance.  If I truly know God, if I really think He has my best good under His control, could I give Him thanks in all things?
     If I looked at Eccleastes 11:5, and meditated on a child being formed in a mother's womb.  How everything that child needs is there from the moment a man and woman come together.  How that child grows in 9 months and is equipped for a lifetime.  If I really see Him as my Creator from the womb, if I believe that He is the giver of life and He has that gift of life in His hand every step of the way, then to give praise and thanks is possible.  Possible even to the point of death--even death on a cross.
    It is possible to be happy and blessed all the time!  Have I accomplished that yet?  My mind has to be trained.  I have to learn the path to obedience.  All things are possible with God.  Her created me.  He knows what I am capable of in Him.  I can do all things through Christ.  He is in me, both to will and work for His good pleasure.  He lives in me!  Christ lives in me!  Let your heart sing with His life in you.  Take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ.  2 Corinthians 10:3-6
    To be obedient is to discipline ourselves to take off the old and put on the new.  It takes training our mind, our heart, our emotions to come into line with God's word.
    The child in us has always been rebellious, but now we put away childish things and push on toward the goal.  Step by step, little by little.  We never stop growing and becoming.  Age 75 and still growing and becoming .  Saying NO to the rebellion in me, taking His hand and walking the way He planned for me.  Oh, how He loves you and me!  Amazing love.  Set your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith from the womb to the grave.

Blessed - a work in progress.  Deuteronomy 31:8