Giving thanks to God without the omnipresent conjunction “but.” Rare!
It is easy to give thanks to God because it is right, and we have so many things to be thankful for as long as we do not have to be unguardedly thankful.
Try naming everything that you are thankful for with regard to your job, spouse, house, day, etc., and then stop. You will find it more difficult than you may have thought it would be. We seem ever so prone to give thanks only if we can take a breath before reciting our woes.
I love my children and I am thankful for the following reasons. STOP RIGHT THERE! Now you have a new level of thanksgiving, which is rare indeed.
“Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name” (Hebrews 13:15).
