By Ron Thomas
Are there is
reasons for you to be grateful to the Lord? There are many reasons for each of
us to be grateful to the Lord. Let us be reminded of some of them. First, that
we are reading this, we can be grateful to the Lord that we have our eyesight.
Perhaps it’s not very good (for varied reasons), but we at least have it. We
can be grateful to the Lord because we can read and understand what it is that
we are reading. Perhaps we did not finish high school and our reading
comprehension is not very good, but we can read and even improve on our reading
capability if we desire. We can be grateful for the life we are living. “You
have no earthly idea how hard my life has been! How can I be grateful for that?”
The fact is, you have your life; think about the many who have lost a loved one
and the life they once had seems to be so empty. You can get up and go to work,
you can stop by a store and purchase something to eat, you can sit out in a
lawn chair and enjoy the birds flying and tweeting in and around the trees, you
can watch the boys play backyard football at a neighbors house, you can mow the
lawn, weed the garden, harvest the garden, build a snowman—you have life, and
for that you need to be grateful to the Lord.
You can be
grateful you’re surrounded by people you love, even those not of your physical
family. Are your parents still alive? Be grateful for that. Are you children healthy
and happy? Be grateful for that. Do you have employment that can provide for your
needs? Be grateful for that. Have you been deathly sick? Perhaps it’s hard to
be grateful for that, but maybe in this terrible sickness, you’ve had
opportunity to reflect in a way you never have before; be grateful to the Lord
He has given you an opportunity to observe and experience things in a new way.
Are you a
Christian? If you had nothing else for which to be grateful, you can be grateful
for that. Think about this for a moment. Without the Lord, your hope is in
what?
Without the Lord
your purpose for living ends when your life is over with no promise of the
eternal rest He gave to each who love and obey Him. Without the Lord you have no
real message of hope to give to any other. Without the Lord your understanding
of love is incomplete and physically oriented, not eternally so.
Psa 146:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul....
Psa 146:2 While I live will I praise Jehovah: I will sing
praises unto my God while I have any being....
Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of
man, in whom there is no help....
Psa 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish....
Psa 146:5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his
help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:...
Psa 146:6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that
in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;...
Psa 146:7 Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who
giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;...
Psa 146:8 Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah
raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;...
Psa 146:9 Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth
the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down....
Psa 146:10 Jehovah will reign for ever, Thy God, O Zion,
unto all generations.
Praise ye Jehovah. It is good to be reminded of such things.
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