I thank God for using Pastor Gardner to teach me this truth. I know that it is true and he preaches it all the time but I am slow sometimes and things take a while to sink in to my thick skull.
I am so thankful that God is pleased with me and loves me for who I am. The fact that God's love and care for me is not dependent upon what I do but upon who He is. God really has been good to me I can't even understand it all it is way to great and magnificent.
God looked at me when I was in the deepest sin and He loved me enough that He sent His own Son to die for me that I might be reconciled to Him. He then came to me and drew me to Him when i was in the pit of my own sin and picked me up and seated me in heaven with Himself. He has made me to be a prince, a saint, a son, a coheir with Jesus Christ and the list could go on.
I am so thankful that God has seen fit to change me and to make me His own. That He loves me and I am His workmanship. That His goodness and grace and forgiveness and salvation and justification and provision and care and everything else is not dependent on how good of a life I live or how much I obey him or how much I do for him. It is based on who He is. The fact that he is God and that He has made me to be His son that I might call Him Dad.
I am thankful that I do not have a God that is just standing there waiting to hit me or punish me. I have a God that is proud of what He has done in my life and what He has made me through Jesus Christ. All His thoughts towards me are peace continually.
God has started a good work in me and I am so thankful that it is God and God alone that will complete the work in me.
I want my life to bring the utmost glory to the Great God of Heaven. He has given everything to me. He has all of me to do with as He will. I know He will only do what is right and good.
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