Bible Reading: Ephesians 5:1-20
Key Verse: Verse 20 – “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
Key
Words: Giving thanks always for all things
A survey of 12,000 people who said that they were faithful in their church
attendance revealed just how ignorant the American people are in spiritual
matters. For example:
Ø
Only
57% or 6,840 people out of 12,000 knew where Jesus was born.
Ø
Only
53% knew who Goliath was.
Ø Only 51% knew where the Ten Commandments could be
found.
Ø Only 49% knew who led Israel out of Egypt.
In
verses nineteen through twenty-one, we are given the three-fold results of
being filled with the Spirit. There will be…
1.
a
song in our hearts (a merry heart). (Verse 19)
2.
thankfulness
for all things. (Verse 20)
3.
a
submissive spirit. (Verse 21)
For
the sake of this devotion, I want to focus on verse twenty and the giving of
thanks for all things.
I have found
that each of us are very thankful for the “apparent blessings,” but we often
fail to thank God for those blessings which we tend to overlook. Let me give you an example:
The parents of
a young man who was killed in the war gave their church a check for $200 as a
memorial to their loved one. When the
presentation was made, another war mother whispered to her husband, “Let us
give the same for our boy.”
The father
said, “Why, what are you talking about?
Our boy didn’t lose his life.”
The mother
said, “That’s just the point. Let us
give it because he didn’t.”
How often we overlook the blessings of God,
often because we are caught up with ourselves and all the cares of this world
that surround us. So let me encourage
you to be alert to discern all the blessings of God, so that we can thank God
for all His goodness.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Be discerning of all of God’s goodness.
✞
Be thankful for things that do not happen, not just for things that do.
✞
If your family has life and health, be thankful!
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