Choose to Give Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving to all Buzzard Blog readers! I’m thankful for how you read and interact with what I write here. It’s a great blessing and help to me.

This Thanksgiving I’m meditating on and putting into action Psalm 9:1-2

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name,  O Most High.

Note the four-fold resolve in this Psalm:

I will give thanks

I will recount

I will be glad

I will sing

Giving thanks isn’t automatic for many of us, especially if our circumstances are difficult. Here we see the Psalmist resolving, choosing, to give thanks. This Thanksgiving, follow the four “I wills” of this Psalm: give thanks to the Lord, recount his wonderful deeds, be glad in God, and sing praises to his name.

Give thanks.

Recount.

Be glad.

Sing.

Why? Because God is God and he’s treated you better than you deserve.

Even if you’re not feeling particularly thankful or glad today, follow the ancient Psalm and soon your feelings will also follow.

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