Quote Of The Day

 

"...It may be easier to give God thanks for all that looks like bouquets of goodness in your life - but the fullest life unfurls when you trust God deeply enough to give Him thanks even for the thorns. To give Him thanks exactly when it's hardest to. Because thankfulness for thorns produces a kind of faithfulness that has roots in His goodness no matter what, and that kind of faith produces more than blooms - it produces real fruit that lasts for all eternity. It's the thorns in your life that can root you in what ultimately really matters in your life.

Because in the most tender of stories, it turns out: You can be thankful for the thorns in your life when you let them pierce your hearts right to Jesus' heart. 

You can be thankful for the thorns - when you let them drive you deeper into the comfort of Christ. 

You can be thankful for the thorns, when you let the thorn in your side affix you to the pierced side of Jesus - and shape and form you more like Jesus Himself. 

It's the thorns of life that make the comfort of Christ your everything. 

It turns out? The secret, sacred way to joy is to keep practicing giving thanks exactly when you don't want to. 

The Lamb of God wore a crown of thorns for you - how can we not give Him thanks for our thorns that press us into Him?"

- Ann Voskamp