Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - Always Giving Thanks - In All Winds and Weathers

Alisa B.
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Day 2: In all winds and weathers

At midnight I rise to give You thanks

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior (Habakkuk 3:18).

Anyone can give God thanks when the harvests are plentiful, the stalls full of fat cattle, and the meadows covered with increasing herds. When the fig tree blossoms, and the fruit is in the vines, when the labor of the olive fails not, and the fields yield abundance of meat, then it is but natural to give thanks.

When health enjoys life, and wealth adorns it, who will not say, “I thank God”? When the wind blows soft on the merchant’s cheek, and wafts home his fleets of treasure, how can he do other than say that God is good? But, to give thanks to God always is another matter. To bless the Lord in all winds and weathers, and praise Him for losses and pains—this is a work of quite another character.

“O,” say you, “we cannot be always praising God with our lips.” I have already said that, and explained that vocal thanksgiving is not essential. Perhaps the most doubtful form of praising God is that which is performed by the tongue, and the most sure and truthful way of giving thanks is that which is found in the actions of common life.

But we are to be always praising God under some shape or other—the heart is always to be full of gratitude. At all times of the day we should be grateful—our first waking thought should be, “Bless the Lord.” Our last, ere we drop to sleep, should be, “Praised be the God of love, who gives a pillow for my weary head.”

At all times of life we should give thanks—in youth we should praise God... In our mid-life we should give thanks... And certainly, in those mature days, when the head, like the golden grain, bows down with ripeness, the aged [follower of Jesus] should commence the employment of heaven and should be always giving thanks.

We should give God thanks when our wealth increases, and also when it melts away—when it flows in, and when it ebbs out. We must bless Him in success and also in disaster. We must give Him thanks when health departs, thanks when, by gradual decay, the tabernacle falls about our ears, and thanks in those expiring moments, when the sigh of earth is hushed by the song of heaven.

~ C. H. Spurgeon

For the fruit upon the tree

For the birds that sing of Thee,

For the earth in beauty dressed,

Father, mother, and the rest,

For Thy precious, loving care,

For Thy bounty everywhere.

For the sunshine warm and bright,

For the day and for the night,

For the lessons of our youth—

Honor, gratitude, and truth,

For the love that met us here,