I grew up learning about different types of prayer and I remember being taught that there was a clear distinction between praising God for who God is and thanking God for what God has done. But as I've gotten older, that distinction has become fuzzier and fuzzier.
As we have been talking this week thanking God, and specifically the spiritual discipline of thanking God, I have once again been reminded that it is so hard to separate out what God has done form who God is, because what God does for flows out of God's love for us. God's care for us. God being God.
And I couldn't help but think what a wonderful disciple thanksgiving was to start with. Because it reminds us both of who God is and what God has done for us, in such a way that we are reminded of the very heart of God. Spiritual disciplines as whole, whether engaged in as individuals or as the body of Christ, help us to seek after the heart of God instead of our own desires. But how can we seek after that which we do not know.
Hence why we need the spiritual discipline of thanksgiving.
How do you plan on engaging in the practice/ discipline of thanksgiving in the coming days? How does thanksgiving impact your relationship with God?
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