It Is Good To Give Thanks

2024 has gotten off to a tumultuous start here at Goshen, with a fire in our Youth Room and now a complex process of assessing damage, dealing with insurance, and arranging for cleaning/ restoration. Plus, it’s thrown us a curve regarding meeting space (thanks to Delaware County Christian School for helping us out!).

At our Prayer Gathering last Wednesday, I asked the group to join me in reading various Psalms of thanks—it just seemed that, instead of dwelling on all this nuisance, we needed to look up and thank the Lord for so very many blessings he’s provided! Passages like these (read slowly, let the Word of God pour over you—and notice the reasons for gratitude):

“I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds” (Psalm 9:1).

“The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him” (Psalm 28:7).

“I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds” (Psalm 57:9-10).

“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night” (Psalm 92:1-2).

“But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise” (Psalm 79:13).

“Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!” (Psalm 100:4).

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever” (Psalm 136:1).