Gratitude Turns What You Have Into Sufficient

We the signal above, hanging in our eating room, that we consult with usually. It helps us as a household, hold life in perspective. For that is being grateful – appreciating what God has already given us to be stewards over, and seeing it as sufficient.

This previous week in youth group, Dan had the youngsters check out the music written by the nation singers, Dan + Shay, referred to as “Larger Homes.” It’s a High 10 Hit proper now, and it was a really becoming music with Thanksgiving this week. It isn’t essentially a Christian music, however as we dug into it and checked out it by way of the lens of the Bible, there are a number of Biblical worldview factors woven all through.

As you spend time reflecting at this time, could the lyrics of this music additionally deliver you to that place of deep gratitude for what God has already given you and we are able to flip it into sufficient. We will seek for that greater excessive, however we are going to NEVER BE SATISFIED. Solely in God we could be absolutely glad. Not us not look horizontally, however vertically.

Under are the lyrics for “Larger Homes” and the music video:

Used to dream about shopping for that larger home
Sitting on high of some hill
Shedding sleep about filling my checking account
Questioning if I ever will

However the older I get, I simply care much less and fewer
‘Bout maintaining with individuals named Jones
When you don’t fill it up with any person that you simply love
It ain’t ever gonna really feel like dwelling

There’s at all times gonna be the next excessive
You possibly can chase for the remainder of your life
Greener grass within the yard subsequent door
Or a shined up Chevy little newer than yours
You’re by no means gonna fill an empty cup
If what you bought’s nonetheless not sufficient
The factor about happiness I’ve discovered is
It don’t reside in larger homes

I can hear the youngsters making little footsteps
Working down the hallway upstairs
I can see the canines taking part in within the again yard
Via the kitchen window proper there

Possibly life’s kinda extra ’bout us swinging on a porch
Holding her whereas the solar disappears
Why would I wanna be wherever else on the planet
When my complete world is sitting proper right here?

No-no, no-no, no-no

There’s at all times gonna be the next excessive
You possibly can chase for the remainder of your life
Greener grass within the yard subsequent door
Or a shined up Chevy little newer than yours
You’re by no means gonna fill an empty cup
If what you bought’s nonetheless not sufficient
Factor about happiness I’ve discovered is
It don’t reside in larger homes

The factor about happiness I’ve discovered is
It don’t reside in larger homes