"In everything give thanks." This is a command I have not paid a lot of attention to but I'm thinking about it lately and obeying it more frequently these days. A thankful heart is a happy heart. It's soft and sensitive and easily led by the Holy Spirit. Unthankful hearts are hard and blind - they feel entitled to what they have yet also dissatisfied with it. It is wickedness on the part of us creatures to take God's manifold blessings in our lives for granted; to expect them as though they exist on their own rather than as things that depend on God's will.
For example: I have a perfectly designed, well-functioning digestive system. I have used it every day of my life and I don't think much about it. But it is a gift from God which He has given to me for now and which He can take away at any time. I'm noticing my internal systems these days and exressing thankfulness for them. Just by thinking about my own guts and viewing them as the gifts they are, I am more in awe of God's creative brilliance and His loving and generous nature.
I have overlooked this simple command most of my life and figured it didn't matter much. But this is God's will for me. My ability to discern God's will for me in matters that are not revealed (my life choices) depends on my decision to submit to Him and to obey in those which are revealed in His Word.
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