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Daily Devotion: Psalm 79:13

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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.

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