Open Hands Of Thanks

There are four things we must do in this life...

Seek God
Praise God
Trust God
Thank God

And through everything....THANK God. 

I don't know about you...but for me...in some circumstances I've faced, I found myself a bit confused concerning the matter of "Thanking Him for ALL things".  This was especially in my earlier years.  And in my 20's.  I'm not saying "I've arrived" in this matter.  However, I can say that "I see/understand it more clearer now".  For I'm learning the benefit of....Thanksgiving.

Bringing our thanksgiving to God always precedes a miracle from God. 

Victory comes to us through open hands of thanks!  We can not truly Seek Him, Praise Him, or Trust Him when we have clinched fists.  Or are angry, bordering on bitterness.  Sometimes our victory isn't the outcome we expected from the onset, but in retrospect we can see that in whatever the outcome....it's a victory....because God uses all things for good.  And if we are made better, which is His intention, we are victors.   

For the last several days my mind has been on this chapter:  Philippians 4

Today it is on Philippians 4:4, Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. 

TODAY I am rejoicing that though I face besetting times here, my name is written down in Heaven.
 
Earth is so temporary.  Heaven is eternal.  It ain't always gonna be like this.  Jesus not only knows my name, but He KNOWS ME!!!!  That, among so many other things, is reason enough to be THANKFUL.  That the great eternal God of the universe truly KNOWS, this is reason enough to lift my hands openly so that I may receive ALL that He wants to give.

Won't you join me?