Giving thanks in all circumstances
When we read the Old testament, we often see the Israelites forgetting God’s goodness and spiralling into a pattern of grumbling. This happens to all of us too- it hardly takes us a few days or sometimes a few hours, to forget God’s goodness and to embrace anxiety. The good news is that God has given us a wonderful weapon to fight this called gratitude. One of the best balms to soothe our fears, our grumblings, our despair is thanksgiving . Because gratitude and grumbling cannot co exist. The Psalmist declares in Psalm 69:" I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves." Here the psalmist is saying that the sacrifice of thanksgiving is more pleasing to God than the sacrifices of animals that they had to make in old testament times. I think its quite helpful for us to realise that thanksgiving is a sacrifice- like any sacrifice, this too, isn't