Day 19

Thank You, Lord, for the people who are a blessing to me…for family and friends and neighbors, for little
children, for brothers and sisters in Christ, for colleagues and leaders, for pastors and teachers…and for others;
our doctor, the postman, the plumber. Thank You for the many ways You use these people to meet my needs,
brighten my path, and lighten my load…to enrich my knowledge of You, and to counsel or correct or nourish me,
building me up in faith. How good and how pleasant it is to enjoy rich fellowship with those who love You. Thank
You for bringing people into my life!

I thank You specifically for:

Yet, Lord, I also thank You that even the people I most admire have flaws—that only You ae wonderful through
and through, with no ugly edges, and that people, even at their best, cannot meet my deepest needs…that at
times they misunderstand, they disappoint, they expect too much, or they can’t be available when I need them.
This makes me even more glad to have You as my best Friend, my wonderful Counselor, my ever-present help in
trouble, immediately available around the clock, seven days a week. How wonderful that I belong to You, the
pure, unpolluted Source from which all downstream loves flow. So I delight in people here on earth; but first and
last I come to You, the only perfect Person, the only ideal Person, the only One whose love is flawless…the only
One who is worthy of my highest praise. O God, who is like You? There is none to compare with You!

I thank You for the friends who’ve failed
To meet my soul’s deep need;
They’ve driven me to the Savior’s feet
Upon His love to feed.

I’m grateful too, through all life’s way
No one could satisfy.
And so I’ve found in You alone
My rich, my full supply!

--Florence White Willett

We love because He first loved us. I John 4:19