Grateful

Today I finished reading "Captured by Grace" by David Jeremiah. It was a wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone. The end of the book was about praise, thanksgiving and being grateful and I thought these points were amazing:

• If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. Most people in the world do not.
• If you awoke this morning more healthy than ill, you are more blessed than one million people who will not survive the week.
• If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of more than five hundred million people around the world.
• If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of this world.
• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish somewhere, you are among the top 8 percent of the world's wealthy.
• If you prayed yesterday and today, you are in the minority because you believe in God's willingness to hear and answer prayer.
• If you have the ability to choose between churches where you may freely worship, you have a blessing many people in this world do not.
• If you are a devoted follower of Jesus Christ, you live with the daily assurance that you will have eternal life, and that your Savior has gone to prepare a mansion for you in glory. Millions of people believe this sad life is all there is.

Yes, Lord, I am abundantly blessed. Help me to be more grateful for all You have given me.