Little Blessings

I'm so thankful for friends who love and encourage me at all times in life. In the good times and bad, I am blessed with Godly friends who love me. It gives me hope that things are going to get better.

Today I had a chance to be reminded of that. I met with a friend during my lunch, and she took time out of her day to go over what it would take to get me on a budget. She told me what I need to do, how I need to do it, and that she's there to help me while I do it. She listened while I shared my heart about how I suck at this. She listened while I shared how God and I are doing. She shared with me some things that she's been going through. She shared with me how God has used being on a budget in her life. She opened her heart to me and for that I am blessed. I left to go back to work thinking... "Lord... I am so blessed. Thank you for that. I don't deserve it, yet you still do it."

Isn't it amazing how God gives us things we don't deserve. I look at areas in my life... things I struggle with... and some-days I don't think I can make it through another day. And then I have a day like today where I am able to see a blessing from God in my life right now. Those moments shine through the dark ones. I need these moments. I cling to them right now. They give me that hope.

This friend today reminded me that it's not God that I'm fighting. We're fighting against satan... the ruler of the darkness. I think I need to look at what I'm going through at God at work in my life... and this is me fighting satan. Because if I don't work on these areas... i'm giving satan control, not God... and that's the last thing I want. I may be struggling with my desires of the things of Christ, but in my heart, I know my desire is to follow God and be in His will.

I am blessed.