Thanks be to God!

        I am reasonably sure that there are times in each of our lives when we need help doing one thing or another.  There are so many different situations that are not covered by auto insurance, home owners insurance, health insurance, and road side assistance.  I have these fancy compression stocking that I wear.  I get them on with the assistance of a device designed for that purpose.  It is, however, difficult to get them off and for that purpose, my wife, Diane becomes the "sock lady."  Each night, she pulls them off and I hope I always say "thanks" for the help.  How many times do you need help in one thing or another?    First Corinthians 15:57 says, " But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
      The word "thanks" is used about 70 times in the Bible.  A lot of them occur in Psalm 136 but many books find the word "thanks" in them.  Giving thanks to God is the supreme example of what we need to do in our Christian lives.  There is that debt for which we can never make any sort of payment.  The only thing we can do is to say "thanks."   It is sad, but there are many who fail to say thanks for what God has already done, is doing, and will do in the future.  We still have knowledge of what He is doing, yet we seem to figure that it is what God does, and so we don't have to say "thanks" to Him. Who am I to never raise my voice in thanks to Him Who saved me.  There is a song that begins the chorus with, "Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul."  That certainly is a good place to start.  We should be echoing those words  each and every day that goes by.  That, however, is not all.  We can say "Thanks" for the daily provisions of life that we take for granted.  We can say thanks for the ability to even think about God and to realize His goodness in our lives.  We can say "Thanks" for the greatest of all hopes that we have in eternal life in a place called "heaven."   We often describe a "thankless" person who is void of gratitude for anything that takes place in their life.  How about you?  Do you say "thanks" in those countless occasions where you need help?  Praise God and give Him thanks today for His workings in your life.