Thankful, Day Thirty

Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!

Serve the Lord with gladness;

Come before His presence with singing.

Know that the Lord, He is God;

It is He who has made us and not we ourselves;

We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,

And into His courts with praise.

Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

For the Lord is good;

His mercy is everlasting,

And His truth endures to all generations.

Psalm 100, NKJV

It's a new decade. We have said goodbye to the Oughties, and initiated the TwentyTeenies. It's a new year. It's a brand new day. Yesterday's gone and we can't get it back; tomorrow may never come. No sense in regrets or worries; today has enough trouble of its own without trying to redo yesterday or preplan tomorrow. And with every new day is a new opportunity to live right, to do right, to choose right.

Today is another opportunity to shout aloud about the goodness of God, to give thanks and praise again for all that He is and for all that He has done.

I shout my thanks that He is God, All Supreme Deity and Divine, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, All Sufficient Sovereign of all that is. And I'm thankful I am not, because I'm just not up to the task.

I shout my thanks that He is good, completely perfect, wholly wonderfully, righteous, holy, just, kind, gentle, long-suffering, faithful and true. And I'm thankful that His goodness is available to assist me in becoming more like Him and less like me.

I shout my thanks that He is here, with me, in me, and for me. He never leaves me nor forsakes me, He never abandons me nor withdraws from me. As long as I walk with Him, He always walks with me. As long as I stand with Him, He continually stands with me. As long as I abide in Him, He abides in me.

Thank you Lord, that you are God, you are good, and you are here!