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"When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings money cannot buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high." - 3rd Stanza of the hymn "Count your blessings "
Before the year finally slips into memory, pause. Not to rehearse your failures, not to edit your regrets, but to tell your soul the truth. This year did not turn out the way you planned. Some dreams stalled. Some goals never moved beyond intention. Some prayers seem unanswered. If honesty is allowed, you expected more from yourself, and perhaps more from God.
But here is the quiet danger of the last day of the year, we often measure the year only by what we did, not by what God preserved. We count achievements, but forget survival. We count results, but ignore restraint. We remember what did not happen, and overlook what did not destroy us.
This final day is not asking you to pretend everything went well. It is asking you to see clearly. To recognize that what you could not do does not cancel what God has done. Delayed dreams do not mean denied purpose. Unmet targets do not equal an absent God.
The hymn speaks with unsettling honesty. When you look at others and their visible gains, it reminds you that God’s greatest blessings are often invisible. Strength to endure, wisdom gained through pain, protection from paths that would have ruined you, grace that held you when discipline failed. These are not small blessings. They are eternal investments.
If God opens your eyes to see His blessings, your perspective shifts. The year stops looking wasted and starts looking intentional. You realize that some prayers were answered with “wait” because you were not yet ready. Some doors stayed closed because danger lived behind them. Some losses refined you more than success ever could.
And so, as the year ends, let your soul sing what your emotions may resist:
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done;
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Do not cross into the new year carrying unnecessary bitterness. Carry clarity. Carry gratitude. Carry trust. The God who sustained you through what you could not finish is the same God who will empower what lies ahead. Count your blessings. It may change how you step into tomorrow.
Don't worry... 2026 will be greater!
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