GIVE THANKS

LIGHT FOR THE WAY
   (Daily Devotional)

Saturday 12th March

Topic: Give Thanks

Text: Psalm 92:1

"It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O most high."

Psalm 92 is a "song for the Sabbath day", a resting place for those who are troubled.
The song begins with a commendation of praise: "It is good to give thanks to the Lord." It does us good to turn our unsettling and anxious thought to declare God's "loving kindness in the morning, and (His) faithfulness every night"(v:2). God loves us and is always faithful! He makes us glad.(v:4).
Praise doesn't just make us glad, it makes us wise. We begin to understand something of God's greatness and creative design in all that He does(v:5-9). We fain wisdom that us hidden from those who do not know God. The wicked may "flourish" and "spring up like the grass" for a moment(v:7), but ultimately they will wither away.
The righteous however, are joined to the one who dwells in eternity(v:8). They "flourish like the palm tree" and "like a cedar in Lebanon"(v:12), symbols of graceful beauty and an unbending strength. For they have been "planted in the house of the LORD"(v:13). Their roots go down into the soil of God's faithfulness: they draw on His unquenchable love.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord today.

PRAYER

Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for your faithfulness over my life and family.
Let the song of praise and thanksgiving not depart from my mouth in Jesus name.

1YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Leviticus 19-20 Mark 14:43-72;  Proverbs 6:30-35

Leviticus 21-22; Mark 15:1-32; Psalm 31:19-24