Lifting up your hands
and thanking God is spontaneous and easy when you have just received a
wonderful blessing: “God, I can’t thank You enough for this miracle!”
“Thank You Father, for
answering my prayer!”
“Father, thank You for
the windfall!”
Perhaps you came close
to being in a fatal accident, but God plucked you out of danger just in time.
Or your grandmother, an unbeliever for many years, finally received Jesus as
her Savior and got healed of a long-term disease.
But there are times
when you don’t feel like lifting up your hands to thank and praise God, yet you
do it. Perhaps you feel very discouraged lately. Perhaps everything is going
wrong for you and you feel like your life is in a mess. You can’t hold back the
tears. Yet, you make a conscious decision to lift your hands and thank God for
being in the situation with you. You open your mouth and begin to praise Him
even though you really don’t feel like doing it.
In the midst of the
trial that you are going through, you praise Him that He is your righteousness
in spite of all the mistakes you have made. You thank Him that He is your
Prince of Peace, and that His peace will arise in you and still the storms in
your life.
My friend, God sees
and appreciates such times when, despite feeling so discouraged, you offer a
freewill thanksgiving offering to Him. In fact, your thanksgiving during such
times is more highly prized by Him than your thanksgiving during those times
when you are feeling joyful because you have just been blessed.
And when you choose to thank Him for His unfailing love, and His faithfulness to deliver, protect and provide for you even when you don’t see the blessings yet, before long, you will find yourself experiencing and enjoying the blessings! So lift your hands and praise the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever (Psalm 106:1)! (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
No comments:
Post a Comment