Psalm100
Day 100: Be blessed.
Why am I numbering the days? Well 100 days ago in this Bible daily devotion I asked us to focus for the next 150 days on the word blessed. We are a third of the way through and the Psalmist today helps us to stay blessed by exhorting us to live a life of thankfulness.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’, that would be sufficient.
A Jewish prayer:
Even if our mouths were filled with songs like the sea, our tongues with joy like its mighty waves, our lips with praise like the breadth of the sky, if our eyes shone like the sun and the moon, and our hands were spread out like the eagles of heaven, if our feet were as swift as the hind, we should still be incapable of thanking You adequately for one thousandth part of all the love You have shown us.
Learn to be grateful, train yourself to be thankful, begin today to appreciate people God has placed around you, the place He has put you in and above all the relationship you have with Him. Be thankful that you can be thankful!
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. The converse of this proposition is also true … . The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts … . It is the highest and holiest of the paradoxes that the man who really knows he cannot pay his debt will be forever paying it … . He will be always throwing things away into a bottomless pit of unfathomable thanks.”
C. K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi pp. 78-80
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