Glorify him with thanksgiving? I find it easy to glorify him with thanksgiving when I feel strong and healthy, when someone sends me a lovely gift, and when God answers my prayers right away. I find it easy to #glorifyGod with #thanksgiving, when He answers my #prayers right away. Click To Tweet
However, I struggle to glorify him with thanksgiving when I feel sick and when I’ve prayed for years for someone’s physical or spiritual health to no avail. As author Nancy Leigh DeMoss would say, “At that time I choose to be a whiner or a worshiper.”
Now Thank We All Our God
At Thanksgiving, some of us sing the song, “Now Thank We All Our God.” I love the last three lines, “Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.”
Martin Rinkart, a seventeenth century Lutheran pastor, wrote that song in Eilenberg during the Thirty Years War. He averaged more than 4,500 funeral services at the height of the war. One of those was for his wife.
However, the first three lines tell us Martin Rinkart chose to worship. “Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done.”
For another post on Thanksgiving, see:
https://www.YvonneOrtega.com/3-reasons-i-hate-thanksgiving-family-reunions-how-to-get-out-of-them/
Prayer: Dear God, help me not to whine. I chose to glorify you with thanksgiving. I choose to worship you this Thanksgiving. Amen. #Choose to glorify God with #thanksgiving. Choose to #worship God with thanksgiving. Click To Tweet
Application: For what will you glorify his name with thanksgiving this week?
Copyright © by Yvonne Ortega November 22, 2011
Recording: Listen to Yvonne Ortega demonstrate how to personalize Scripture to pray for our loved ones. Interview #68 October 25, 2011 at www.blogtalkradio.com/hope-for-the-journey
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