Psalm 79:13 "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations."
I am trying to focus on the subject of Thanksgiving, or giving thanks
unto the Lord. I know I am skipping around in the Scriptures while searching
for verses to think about. At some point, we will come back to this 79th Psalm,
but today I want to think about the context of this 13th verse. While reading
through this Psalm, I see that the writer refers to their enemies as heathens
and the fact that they had intruded into places that to that point had been
reserved for the Lord's people. Things like this do not happen overnight. Satan
is very patient in his tactics to try to overcome. Sometimes, he draws people
away over a period of generations while other times he has been able to do it
in one single generation. However long it requires, Satan is willing to wait
until he thinks the time is right to jump into action. As I read this Psalm, I
have a thought that jumps out at me for today. No matter the situation in life
around us, we always have much to be thankful for. We can be certain of one
thing, God WILL PREVAIL. "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture
will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all
generations." It is of the utmost importance that we show "all
generations" the power, love, mercy, and grace of our Lord. It is
important that we maintain our position of worship and praise unto the Lord and
thereby teach our children and grandchildren that God is sovereign and His way
is best. Therefore, we "thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee
thanks for ever." Let us give praise, honor, and glory unto the Lord our
God each day that we live.