DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 26; Ezekiel 43; John 19:17-42
What thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God. 1 Thess. 3:9
Thanksgiving in reverse is giving thanks. Thanks are usually given freely. We would never say that thanks could be bought or sold. Yet, it is possible to owe someone thanks and be indebted if we haven’t paid thanks. Our verse asks, what thanks can we render (or repay) to God. How very much we owe Him for His goodness to us! Why not pay today and give Him thanks? We owe it and He deserves it. —Rex Trogdon
O Lord, from my heart I do thank Thee, for all Thou hast borne in my room,
Thine agony, dying, unsolaced, alone in the darkness of doom,
That I, in the glory of heaven, forever and ever might be,
A thousand, a thousand thanksgivings, I bring, blessed Saviour, to Thee! —E. C. H.