Praise the Thanks #5

Our praise and thanks for today is….

Praise you Lord for healing our broken hearts. Ps 147:3

*** There are all sorts of things that can break our hearts. The cause can be anything from not getting our choice of birthday presents to the death of a loved one, the breaking up of a family home through divorce or separation all the way to the loss of a favorite pet or a fight with a friend. What we don’t think of on our list of things that can break our hearts is the list of sin. Living our lives outside of God’s commands and boundaries causes a great deal of brokenness in our spiritual hearts that God wants to heal. We have our cure, Jesus Christ but we need to want our hearts repaired.

You can stay mad at mom and dad over not buying you what you want or you can forget about it and go on. You can cry over your grandparents dying forever or you can accept the fact that God has them with Him if they were believers. The breaking up of a home may never repair itself but God can repair our hearts and heal the hurt that comes from this tragedy affecting our families today.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is not the answer. Opening up the part of our heart that is hurting over and over again is not the answer either. God is the answer. He does not promise a hurt-free life no more than your parents can promise you that you will never fall and scrap your knee. What He promises is healing, praise the Lord.

Start the healing process today and go to Him. Learn to trust that He knows what medicine it will take to get you the healing needed. Go with God and He will go with you. Don’t put a stop-watch on Jesus thinking He needs to heal you in the time frame you give Him. We’re on God’s time not ours. Healing will come if we allow it to arrive through Jesus.


Thank you Lord for fruits and veggies you created for us to enjoy.

**I think we can safely say that not everyone is so quick to thank the Lord for veggies. “Yuk! I don’t like to eat my veggies,” they complain. Whether we like spinach, broccoli, corn, carrots or any of the rest doesn’t matter, we can still be thankful for the food God has provided for us. How mom cooks them may be better than how grandma does it but that is not the point. The point is being thankful for what God has provided for us. It doesn’t have to be an apple, orange, green bean, or turnip that we are talking about it can be other foods we get to eat from God’s marketplace. Foods to eat with our mouths as well as the food we get to digest from His Bible. His commands He has given us to obey. We may not like what His rules are that He expects us to feed on, “Yuk! I don’t like that rule. Why can’t I hate my brother he deserves it the jerk!” we complain. Try as we might to rearrange it to fit our taste it doesn’t change what God originally had to say. We can dress up carrots with salt and butter to suit our taste but we can’t with God’s word. God’s word stand on its own it doesn’t need ketchup or salt. Feed on it, follow it, and enjoy the results of what it has to offer.

Remember…
We are exchanging please and thank you with Praise and thanks to God. Praising Him for who He is, thanking Him for what He has done, for the things around us, things given to us, gifts hidden all over the world for us to find.

X marks the spot!


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