Samuel Matthews

Loved ones, if you can own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. One third of all the world does not have access to even one.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than 1,000,000 who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation. You are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.

If you have money in the bank in your wallet and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive, you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed, because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed.

If you prayed yesterday and today, you are blessed because you believed in God's willingness to hear and answer prayers.

If you believe in Jesus as the Son of God and have learned of His way of salvation, you are part of a small minority in the world.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over 2 million people in the world who cannot read anything at all.