Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)预览

Give Thanks to God among the Peoples

Psalm 108

Every parent loves it when their child talks to them, and expresses their gratitude towards them and their efforts.

God also likes it when we turn to him with grateful hearts. Gratitude is one characteristic of a soft heart. A grateful heart can bring something good out of the worst situation. A grateful heart has a different way of looking at the world. This perspective gives us the possibility to trust and rely on the one to whom we are grateful.

When we feel loved, then the natural state of our hearts is to be grateful. They simply resonate at that frequency. But to understand that love, we need to meditate on it, absorb it. And then, then, something miraculous can happen to us!

When we begin to really grasp how much we are loved, then our gratitude grows, but when this realization becomes so strong, we are like little children who have a strong need to express their gratitude on the outside - they kiss, hug, and jump for joy. And then everyone can see how they are filled with joy and gratitude. When we look at everything around us and in us that the Lord has prepared for us, we cannot help but praise him. Personally, it often happens that I can’t keep this gratitude to myself and I’m happy to show it outside. And this can become very contagious - the visible expression of gratitude can encourage those around us to become grateful themselves.

May the Lord help us to keep grateful hearts and may that gratitude be visible to everyone around us, so that in this way we can bring someone closer to our Savior!