FAITH CAPSULE: It pleases God to be thankful.
Luke 17:11-37
One that knows to think will never be short of giving thanks to God. By God’s grace, it is a privilege to go to sleep through hours of the night and to wake up to see a new day. Giving thanks to God for seeing a new day cannot be enough. A man that can see a new day to go out and able to return at the end of the day owes God a living thanks giving. Just a question: Up till this hour, how many times have you lifted your voice giving thanks to God today? One that can count to identify numbers of thanksgiving to God is short and yet to give enough thanks to God.
Are you one with a shut-up mouth from giving thanks to God?
One that opens mouth wide in giving thanks to God will be filled up by God. After the bondage of over four hundred years of the Israelites, God expected open-mouth not shut-up mouth for their deliverance. God required from the Israelites saying, “I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.” (Psalm 81:10) Opening mouth wide giving thanks to God is fulfilling God’s expectation from His creation. Jesus demonstrated His expectation for thanksgiving from us. Bible recorded Jesus’ passing through midst of Samaria and Galilee when He engaged ten lepers. The lepers caught the attention of Jesus for their healing. When Jesus saw, them He said to them “…Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.”” (Luke 17:14) In Jesus’ cleansing word for the ten lepers, cleansing answered while only one of the ten lepers returned to render thanks giving to Jesus for his cleansing. God is expecting our thanks giving always. Jesus’ responded to the only one leper out of the ten lepers, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” (Luke 17:17-19) God is a good God. Without doubt, good God expects our thanks giving always. Are you one that is giving thanks to God always?
Giving thanks to God is among ways of pleasing God instead of pleasing man. Are you one that will consider pleasing God always? God that is mindful of man is paying attention to identify man that is mindful of Him. Being mindful of God is the indication of man that pleases God. Will you begin to please God and be on top of your world with peace of God? Proverbs 16:7 pointed out, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Please God by giving thanks to God repeatedly.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be heart full of giving Him thanks always.