IN EVERYTHING, GIVE THANKS

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: IN EVERYTHING, GIVE THANKS

text this morning is 1 Thessalonians 5:18.

Paul writes, "In everything give thanks for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

Paul simply says very directly, "In everything give thanks." No exceptions, no excuses, nothing is outside those parameters, in everything give thanks. That little phrase en pante in the Greek means in connection with everything that occurs...in connection with everything in life give thanks no matter what it might be, with obvious exceptions of personal sin.
He is saying no matter what happens to you in life, be thankful. No matter lot, no matter what circumstance, no matter what struggle, vicissitude, trial, testing, be thankful, give thanks. No matter what the situation we are to find reason to thank God. This is not some nebulous thanks fired off into space, it is a thanks given directly to God.

By the way, we should remind ourselves that thanksgiving is the essence of Christian living and attitude. And being unthankful is the very essence of the unregenerate heart.

The Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 1 identifies the ungodly with some very direct words. In verse 21 he says, "They knew God," that is through conscience and creation God was visibly manifest to them, and experientially manifest to them, but even though they knew God through creation and conscience, he says, "They did not honor Him as God or give thanks." There is the indictment on unregenerate man. There is the indictment on the non-Christian. He refuses to do what is basic and that is to thank God for everything.

God who created everything, God who gives him life and breath in whom he lives and moves and has his being, God who has revealed himself to him in conscience and therefore given him a standard of right and wrong, God who gives every good and perfect gift is THE one and THE only one to whom all thanks is to be rendered

So look back today and say a big thanks to the lord, for seen the end of the year, thank God for your family, church, friends, property, marriage, work, education, health, life etc. Don't be ingrate

LET US PRAY

FATHER IN JESUS NAME, LET MY LIFE BE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF YOUR PRAISES TO THE UNGRATEFUL HEART, AND TEACH ME DAILY TO PRAISE YOU

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS😀