“I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
Psalm 139:14 (NKJV)

SEPTEMBER 14 - “Cha-ching, Cha-ching,” proclaimed the pretty suburban mother of two young boys, retaining a smug snicker. The aunts, uncles, nieces, and in-laws who gathered around the Thanksgiving table stared in disbelief. “When I saw him downtown that night, I knew I couldn’t let that one get away.” Rosy-cheeked with embarrassment, her mother-in-law smiled with a hollow grin, yet inwardly she seethed like a trounced alley cat. Now everyone knows—she only married my son for the money!

I’ll never forget the day someone I once trusted sat across the desk from me and ominously declared, “The only reason I wanted a relationship with you was because I knew what it would do for me.” That statement revealed to me that all along, I was in relationship with a taker and a user. Those words crushed me, causing me to understand how important it is to never allow the gifts that have been bestowed upon you to ever eclipse the one who bestowed them.

Celebrate the people who deposit goodness into your life and take you to a place of success and favor. Celebrate your mentors in huge fashion, since this “attitude of gratitude” and humility keeps you from proudly thinking about the particular gifting of your own life.

• Consistently refuse the temptation to seek the gift more than the giver.
• Treasure those whom God brings into your life.
• Never let those people go.

Father, I thank You and praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works; my soul knows them very well.

Family Scripture Reading

Ephesians 6

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