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DAVID REMINDS US OF THANKSGIVING WHICH WE SO EASILY FORGET
TUESDAY, APRIL 23
Psalm 103:1-22
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
O, give thanks
unto the LORD.
DAVID REMINDS US OF THANKSGIVING WHICH WE SO EASILY FORGET
So often we have received so plentifully from God’s hands, and so often we forget to return thanks.
The greatest gift of life is the forgiving of all our sins. The spiritual is followed by the physical — the healing of our sickness. In the physical realm we may meet with a severe accident that leads to death. Or God may give us radiant health by blessing us with a good appetite.
The reasons why we must give thanks to God are many more than just stated. God is the Judge above all judges to whom He is to be appealed when we are oppressed by biased judges. God has given us His Law to guide to a righteous life. God is ever gracious and pardoning our recurring sins. He forgives and He forgets, which shows our sins are removed as far as the east is from the west.
He is a loving Father who pities His children. He the Everlasting Father sees us as children of dust. He sees us as grass and our glory as flowers of grass. But the mercies of God are everlasting to them that worship Him in fear.
The Lord must be thanked and praised simply because He is the Mighty Potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords. Thus all the angels and heavenly hosts and the whole creation are all gathered at His feet, together with us His redeemed children to thank Him and praise His Name.
Are we praising and thanking Him enough? We can never praise and thank Him enough! Our eyes are often focused earthwards. Let us lift them heavenward to our loving, heavenly Father.
THOUGHT: Remembrance is the hallmark of gratitude.
PRAYER: Help me, Father, to live a life of thanksgiving hence forth and always.