Give Thanks To the Lord

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

November 14, 2025

Give Thanks To the Lord

Praise the Lord!

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!

    His faithful love endures forever.

Psalm 106:1 

I truly want to make the life in Christ my way of life. As I am being trained in this way of righteousness, learning to stay in God’s grace for each day has become a guiding light, a way of keeping my eyes of Jesus. One way this is being worked out in my life is by becoming more intentional about giving thanks to the Lord. And by this, I don’t mean just generic thanks to the Lord, for he is good! I mean learning to specify to my Heavenly Father that for which I am thankful.

This is not difficult. It is a matter of pausing to reflect on how I am experiencing the Doxology, “Praise God from who all blessings flow.” Tuesdays we go grocery shopping. At lunch, my prayer before our meal always thanks God that our cup overflows with His blessings and our pantry is full. I pay my tithe weekly, and as I place my check in the offering plate, I am mindful that, everything we have has come from God, and we give God only what He first gave us! (1 Chronicles 29:14)

Saturdays are our time of preparation for our public worship on Sunday. I am learning to use this time to be mindful of the many blessings God has brought into our lives as we journey in the FOG, the Favor of God. I bring these blessings, with a thankful heart, before His throne of Grace in worship on Sunday.

My Takeaway: For several years, Cheryl and I have placed a Blessing Jar on our kitchen table. We use this quart size jar as a receptacle for our weekly blessings. On Sunday morning I list on a slip of paper the specific blessings God has poured into our lives in the preceding week, and I place the paper in the jar. On New Year’s Eve, we review each slip of paper again because we want to give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.

Sē’lah

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First Think, Then Pray

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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