http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11321651/Meet-the-Arab-Christians-who-want-to-fight-for-Israel.html Aramean Christians voluntarily fighting for Israel, Amazing God that we serve, isn’t He?

Am I grateful?  Is it even cool anymore to be thankful or truly aware of my blessings?  Do I walk around each day oblivious to the true value of the precious moments and people?  Do I thirst for God’s Word as if it were the only thing to quench my parched heart and wearied mind?  Will I be one like those who will lament their thirst for God’s absent word as told of in Amos.  Amos 8:11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land– not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.  Have I written God’s Word upon my heart so that I may never thirst?  Am I filled with the Living Waters that invalidate drought and thirst?

What do I have that I cannot do without?  Probably almost everything.  Do I work to demonstrate my thankfulness for those essential blessings?  Or have I become complacent in my lack of hunger and thirst to the point where I “expect” those graces to which I have become accustomed?  Do I even know or remember what it means to be thankful?  Thankful for the ear of God, that He might hear my prayer in silence?  Thankful for each day I have been given, nothing guaranteed, all valued as the vapor each man’s life entails.  Am I practiced in the unforgiving thankfulness and entitlement that is used to describe those foolish few?  Have I valued the moments that I have been allocated by God by making the most of every opportunity or do I simply speak of gratefulness in the abstract?  Must I taste the shivering night, growling stomach and despair of poverty or homelessness to remind me of the fruit in God’s daily blessing?  Or do I follow the “Great I AM” whose name reflects a permanence and preciousness of each defining moment?

Lord Jesus, You mentioned that You had the Food of God’s Word and the Living Waters to eternally quench a man’s pangs.  Lord imbue me with such fulfilling Word so that I might fill the empty hearts of despair languishing in the world’s sensibility.  Thank you for being who You are, just to know You has been enough for me.  Take from me any mumbling, dissatisfaction, whining, grumbling and ungratefulness, replacing it with Hope, Joy and Wisdom.  Thank you for letting me follow Your Footsteps upon this Earth.