Intelligent Worship brings us into the presence of God. Part 8.
While I am writing these at the rate of one a day, you who get these in an email will only receive one per week; so as not to overwhelm. Should you choose to read binge them, they're here.
Thanking God is something believers do every day throughout our day. It is not reserved for a set time nor a set day. We do not wait until the calendar rolls around to the third Thursday of November (here in the US of A).
We are thankful when we wake up, even before our eyes open or we rise up to greet the new day given us. We have thankful hearts for the mercies of God in our everyday lives. But most of all, like many other born again Christians around this globe, we are thankful for God's neverending grace.
We are thankful that God has chosen us to be His, that we accepted His offer of grace through His Son Jesus Christ, and that now He sends us out to spread/share this same gospel of grace with other people who need to hear and receive it just like we needed to hear and receive it.
2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
Romans 6:16-18
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Being thankful to God is God's will for His people. It is impossible to be angry when we're thanking God. It's like biting one's own face. Impossible.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
The words we speak and the actions we take in any given situation, whether at home, at work, at school; in public, in private, unspoken are to be undertaken in the Name of the Lord Jesus, thanking God for one more opportunity to represent Him and share His grace with those around us.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Is this easy? No. Can we do it? Yes. If we remember to not allow ourselves to be so easily frustrated with the world around us. Even if others cannot hear us, God can. Even if others do not see us, God can. We are accountable to God for how we think and how we behave. And while we are not accountable to the world, we are held accountable to each other for how we represent Christ to the world.
