FAITH CAPSULE: In giving thanks to God is getting attention from God.
Psalm 136
Give God the sacrifice of thanksgiving continually to seek God diligently. Giving thanks is not a thinking engagement. Giving thanks is rooted in faith, appreciating God for what He has done, what He is doing and all He will do. Giving God thanksgiving, praising God continually lines together and cannot be separated. Psalm 100:4 recorded, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…”
God is a God of jealousy while giving Him attention is what pleases Him to give back His attention. In giving thanks to God is getting attention from God.
King David’s successful to return the ark of God to his city prompted thanksgiving to God. The thanksgiving of King David stated, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!” (1Chronicles 16:8-9) King David’s thanksgiving called upon God and made known God’s deed. Thanksgiving of King David is recorded for our learning to gain understanding about what it means to give self to the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. Giving thanks to God is not a casual engagement. With understanding, giving reasonable thanks to God demands continual doing.
Jesus’ encounter with ten lepers pointed out that God awaits all man’s thanksgiving at all time. When Jesus healed ten lepers, only one of the lepers returned to give thanks to Jesus. Jesus reacted to one leper’s thanksgiving, “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, “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 17:15-19)
Giving thanks to God is a reasonable sacrifice, it is a good doing before God.
Psalm 92:1-2 stated, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High” Thanking and praising God is an act of declaring His goodness at all time. The Psalmist stated when to declare His thanks, to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night.”
When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle. Volumes and pages of a book will never be enough to identify what thanking and praising God is doing.
Giving God the sacrifice of thanks is giving self to seeking God diligently.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with heart of seeking Him with thanks giving diligently.