Kingsley: thanksgiving

Tuesday, August 24, 2021
    Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle
Meditation:
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with music and song.
    —Psalm 95:1-2 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Ah! that we would offer to God more frankly the sacrifice of thanksgiving! So we should do God justice, by confessing all we owe to Him; and so, we must believe, we should please God; for if God be indeed our Father in heaven, as surely as a parent is pleased with the affection and gratitude of his child, so will our Father in heaven be pleased when He sees us love Him, who first loved us.
    ... Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), from “Sacrifice to Caesar or to God”, in All Saints’ Day, and other sermons, ed. William Harrison, London: Kegan Paul, 1878, p. 385 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 95:1-2; 50:14; Matt. 22:21; Eph. 5:20; Phil. 4:6; Heb. 13:15; 1 John 4:19
Quiet time reflection:
    To You, Lord, I owe all. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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