"During Thanksgiving, I was trying to think of what I was most thankful for. I am thankful for many things, but I wondered if there was something I was thankful for above all else. Then it hit me--I am most thankful that God saved me!!
"...we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do". (Ephesians 2:3b-10)
I was an object of wrath and dead in sin but God in His mercy sent Jesus to save me! I never did anything good and yet God still saved me. And not only that but I have become His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.
"[B]eing confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." (Philippians 1:6)
I am so grateful and thankful that God saved me, and not only that, but that He is working in me so that I can do good works that He planned in advance for me to do. I pray that my life would bring glory to His Name."
