Nathan Crockett in chapel on Thursday encouraged us to think about taking Psalm 136 and personalizing it, making it your own by taking it and basically writing your own version with the things God has worked out in your own life. God really touched me through Mr. Crockett's message, and I felt like that would really help me, so I did it, and it was a blessing.
I've been debating posting this for a while, but I think that maybe it could be a blessing to someone else, so I'm going to post it, but please don't think any more highly of me because of it, I struggle with just as many things as you do every day, if not more. And at the time, I really was not thankful for some of these, the fall, the memory loss. But praise the Lord that He forgives us and helps us grow.
So, here it is:
- God is a mighty and wonderful God, for his mercy endures forever.
- God formed me in my mother's womb, for his mercy endures forever.
- God gave me many gifts and abilities, for his mercy endures forever.
- God gave me a good memory and good determination, for his mercy endures forever.
- I was born into a God fearing family, for his mercy endures forever.
- With parents that love me more than I will ever understand, for his mercy endures forever.
- At 4, my family moved to Poland as missionaries, for his mercy endures forever.
- I was given brothers and sisters to love me and to teach me, for his mercy endures forever.
- And for me to love and to teach likewise, for his mercy endures forever.
- God convicted my heart, and saved my soul, for his mercy endures forever.
- God's hand kept me from death, while riding my bike, for his mercy endures forever.
- When I turned my bike right in front of a car, for his mercy endures forever.
- At 16 I suffered permanent hearing damage in my right ear, for his mercy endures forever.
- At 18 I left home to work, then start college at BJU, for his mercy endures forever.
- I went ice-skating with my cousin in Alaska, and had a great time, for his mercy endures forever.
- Until I fell and hit my head, causing memory loss, and brain damage, for his mercy endures forever.
- 7 months later I woke up in an ambulance, staring up at an EMT, for his mercy endures forever.
- I had had a seizure because of my fall, for his mercy endures forever.
- I now have at least one seizure every month, for his mercy endures forever.
- Through my seizures, God has taken away my good memory, and my good grades, for his mercy endures forever.
- But He left me my life, for his mercy endures forever.
- He showed me that my good memory, and my good grades, were really his all along, for his mercy endures forever.
- He humbled me and taught me by all these things, for his mercy endures forever.
- I look through my life, and at the trials, but I wouldn't change a single thing, for his mercy endures forever.
- God, I examine your work in my life and love you even more, for Your mercy endures forever.
Never forget the blessings that God has given you, for His mercy really does endure forever. Take the time to stop and remember.
-Tim
