A Note from Pastor Keith
November 28, 1999
William Temple shares this beautiful insight about giving thanks to God:
It is probable that in most of us the spiritual life is impoverished and stunted because we give so little place to gratitude. It is more important to thank God for blessings received than to pray for them beforehand. For that forward-looking prayer, though right as an expression of dependence upon God, is still self-centered in part, at least, of its interest; there is something we hope to gain by our prayer. But the backward-looking act of thanksgiving is quite free from this. In itself it is quite selfless. Thus it is akin to love. All our love to God is in response to his love for us; it never starts on our side. “We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
May I encourage you all to devote an entire time of prayer to just giving praise and adoration and thanksgiving to God. Scripture tells us that He alone is worthy of our praise. Amen!
In His service,
Pastor Keith
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