How Not to Count Your Blessings
Roger Thomas
Luke 12:13-21
Introduction: I can't think of Thanksgiving without the words of that old gospel song running through my head. I will bet that is true for many of you was well. "Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done. Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings see what God has done. When upon life billows you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged thinking all is lost. Count your many blessings every doubt will fly, And you will be singing as the days go by. Chorus: Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings see what God has done."
Johnson Oatman penned the words to that song one-hundred twenty years ago. During his lifetime, Oatman wrote over 5000 hymns. You may remember Higher Ground and No Not One. But this one was probably his most famous. Oatman wrote the words. Edwin Excell composed the music. Excell was also responsible for the tune to which we sing the classic, Amazing Grace.
What more fitting reminder for the Thanksgiving Season than those words, "Count Your Many Blessings. Name them one by one!" But consider this-there is a good way to count your blessings and a bad way, a right way and a wrong way. A way that flows from faith and way that doesn't. A way that inspires hope and a way that leads to despair. Today I want to look at the wrong way. Next week, we will examine the right way.
But first, let's establish one thing-we are blessed. There is not a person in this room who hasn't been blessed. I know I have. We live in a blessed nation. Millions of people around the world risk life and limb to get to this country. That's the often unspoken side of the immigration debate that gets so heated at times. Imagine living in a country that no one wanted to come to and that everyone would leave if they could. It is not just the prosperity that draws people to this lan ...
Roger Thomas
Luke 12:13-21
Introduction: I can't think of Thanksgiving without the words of that old gospel song running through my head. I will bet that is true for many of you was well. "Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done. Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings see what God has done. When upon life billows you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged thinking all is lost. Count your many blessings every doubt will fly, And you will be singing as the days go by. Chorus: Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings see what God has done."
Johnson Oatman penned the words to that song one-hundred twenty years ago. During his lifetime, Oatman wrote over 5000 hymns. You may remember Higher Ground and No Not One. But this one was probably his most famous. Oatman wrote the words. Edwin Excell composed the music. Excell was also responsible for the tune to which we sing the classic, Amazing Grace.
What more fitting reminder for the Thanksgiving Season than those words, "Count Your Many Blessings. Name them one by one!" But consider this-there is a good way to count your blessings and a bad way, a right way and a wrong way. A way that flows from faith and way that doesn't. A way that inspires hope and a way that leads to despair. Today I want to look at the wrong way. Next week, we will examine the right way.
But first, let's establish one thing-we are blessed. There is not a person in this room who hasn't been blessed. I know I have. We live in a blessed nation. Millions of people around the world risk life and limb to get to this country. That's the often unspoken side of the immigration debate that gets so heated at times. Imagine living in a country that no one wanted to come to and that everyone would leave if they could. It is not just the prosperity that draws people to this lan ...
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