Here’s a thought to ponder as you celebrate the Thanksgiving
Day Holiday with friends and loved-ones.
“It’s one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks.
Gratitude
is what you feel.
Thanksgiving
is what you do.”
Pastor Timothy Keller, New York City, NY.
How are you doing with thanksgiving to people who make your
life more meaningful every day?
And more important, how often do you offer thanksgiving
to your Heavenly Father?
Fact! We can never repay GOD for all that He has done for us.
His goodness, love, mercy and amazing grace in giving His one and only Son to
die for us always will be beyond our ability to repay.
What we can do is daily and exuberantly open our lips and
praise GOD’s Name.
There’s a song that says, “If I had 10,000 tongues, it just wouldn’t be enough to say thank you!”
(Richard Smallwood) – and it wouldn’t.
We owe our daily existence to the One who created us. It’s
His breath in our lungs. Surely, we can give back a bit of it to Him in praise,
and we can tell others how good He’s been to us.
We can take time to say:
Not to us, O Lord, not
to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and
your faithfulness. Psalm 115:1
O give thanks to the
Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever! Psalm 118:1
Not just one day a year, but every day of the year.
Almighty GOD deserves no less!
I bless GOD every chance I get; my lungs expand with His praise. Psalm 34:1 (MESSAGE BIBLE)
Praise and Thanksgiving: We exalt you, our GOD,
forever we will praise your name! YOU are gracious and compassionate, slow to
anger and rich in mercy. YOU are good, YOUR promises are trustworthy and YOU
are faithful in all YOU do. YOU hear us when we cry out in trouble and YOU lift
us up when we are down. YOU are the GOD who is always near; We thank YOU for
YOUR lovingkindness that is better than life and JESUS CHRIST who saved us. To YOUR NAME
be all glory, all honor and all praise, forever and ever. Amen!
Always by God’s Word and prayer,
Cecile
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