Season 6 Begins with Our Universal Call to Gratitude. 3

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Fallback reason for gratitude to God part three.

Over the years, in the seasons, I struggled with being sad and wondering about the will of God. I found myself not thinking I had much to thank God for. Realistically, I had nothing to thank God for. As foolish as that was, I needed to develop some fallback positions from which I could, by faith, give God thanks.

The first of those peaceful, safe positions of faith and hope was thanking God for what He was about in the lives of my loved ones. The second position of gratitude can be summed up in the phrase: "It is better to have been born than not to have been born. It is a tricky proposition but a genuine reason to be thankful.

And only when we as children of God pray in the deep humility David had for his Creator:

"If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night," 12 Even the darkness is not dark to Thee, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to Thee. 13 For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from Thee, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth."

Psalm 139:11-15

Can we then go on in complete sincerity to say:

"Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way."

Psalm 139:23-24

If you do not believe, that humble prayer of gratitude to your Creator, whom you do not know yet, maybe that first step to abundant, eternal life:

"And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent."

John 17:3

"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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