This month, my church has the sermon series titled “Gratitude” which is so odd in November, right? Haha

Our senior pastor spoke first Sunday and we then took communion together as a congregation. He introduced the next sermon series and also said that many times in our life we make our circumstances bigger than what Jesus did for us. How convicting is that?

If we remember and give thanks regularly, especially in the overwhelming moments, our perspectives will change. We won’t see the situation we’re going through as quite so large and instead, we’ll be filled with gratitude that no matter what happens, we have Jesus.

Before we sang Goodness of God, Pastor referenced Psalm 23. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. My pastor said that here, follow can be replaced by pursue. God’s goodness and mercy is pursuing us and finds us every single time.

I’m sure that was a little segue into the actual sermon given by our associate pastor out of John 9 where a blind man was healed. I’ve read this story before but it was explained in a new way that I hadn’t grasped before.

At the very end of the chapter, Jesus said to the Pharisees, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.”

If you’re blind, you don’t know what’s coming for you. You literally can’t see. How are you going to avoid something if you don’t know?

If you see, if you’ve been told what’s coming, you have guilt and conviction working in you as you ponder decisions. You ultimately will have a decision to make when you’ve been told the Gospel. To turn to Jesus or reject Him. There’s no gray area.

God’s goodness and mercy is pursuing us when we’ve become adopted as His children. Everything in God is good. There is no other God and any god out there can’t compare to our God. What gratitude we should experience in this alone, that He gave up His Son that we might be saved through Him?

I’m looking forward to what else is in store for this sermon series on Gratitude.