Why so? Because God makes everything work together for our good. We thank the physician, though he gives us a bitter medicine which makes us nauseated because it is to make us well. We thank any man who does us a good turn; and shall we not be thankful to God who makes everything work for good to us?
God loves a thankful Christian! Job thanked God when He took all away: "The Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord!" Job 1:21. Many will thank God when He gives; Job thanks Him when He takes away, because he knew that God would work good out of it.
We read of saints with harps in their hands an emblem of praise. Revelation 14:2. Yet we meet many Christians who have tears in their eyes, and complaints in their mouths! But there are few with their harps in their hands who praise God in affliction.
To be thankful in affliction is a work peculiar to a saint. Every bird can sing in spring--but few birds will sing in the dead of winter! Everyone, almost, can be thankful in prosperity but a true saint can be thankful in adversity!
Well may we, in the worst that befalls us, have a psalm of thankfulness because God works all things together for our good. Oh, be much in giving thanks to God!
[Thomas Watson]
Romans 8:28 ... And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 ... In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.❤
