Bible
Key Verse: Verse 20 – “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
Key Words: Giving thanks always for all things
A recent survey of
12,000 people who said that they were faithful in their church attendance
revealed just how ignorant the American people are in spiritual matters. For example:
Ø Only 57% or 6,840 people out of 12,000 knew where Jesus was born.
Ø
Only
53% knew who Goliath was.
Ø
Only
51% knew where the Ten Commandments
could be found.
Ø
Only
49% knew who led
In verses nineteen through twenty-one, we are given the
three-fold results of being filled with the Spirit. There will be…
1.
a
song in our hearts (a merry heart). (Verse 19)
2.
thankfulness
for all things. (Verse 20)
3.
a
submissive spirit. (Verse 21)
For the sake of this devotion, I want to focus on verse
twenty and the giving of thanks for all things.
I have found that each
of us are very thankful for the “apparent blessings,” but we often fail to
thank God for those blessings which we tend to overlook. Let me give you an example:
The parents of a young
man who was killed in the war gave their church a check for $200 as a memorial
to their loved one. When the
presentation was made, another war mother whispered to her husband, “Let us
give the same for our boy.”
The father said, “Why,
what are you talking about? Our boy
didn’t lose his life.”
The mother said,
“That’s just the point. Let us give it
because he didn’t.”
How often we overlook the blessings of God, often
because we are caught up with ourselves and all the cares of this world that
surround us. So let me encourage you to
be alert to discern all the blessings of God, so that we can thank God for all
His goodness.
✞ Be discerning of all of God’s goodness.
