Holy and Righteous Father, teach me to do your will and reflect your character while offering your grace. In a day of cheap grace, when anything goes just as long as we want to be buddies with Jesus, Peter's words should shock us into reverence – the commitment in life to set our lives apart from the evil and sludge that defiles our hearts and to offer our bodies, hearts, and minds to do his will and reflect his character. Holiness is that forgotten character virtue that is the Christian's reflection of God, his or her holy and righteous Father.
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives. The day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. But I confess that my love is not as strong as yours, so please, fill me with your love by the power of the Holy Spirit. I love you because you first loved me. I love you because you are worthy of all love. I love you for the blessings you shower upon me. I love you for giving me hope. I love you Father. I love you for who you are and what you have done. I love you for what you have promised. O great Lover of my soul, thank you for sending Jesus as the demonstration of your love. The steadfast reason we give thanks is because God is good and his love is inexhaustible, beyond decay, and never ending. Our thanks arises from the nature of God and his glory and goodness. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven. Please help me to understand that true thankfulness involves sharing your grace with others. I especially am thankful for all the missionaries in other cultures sharing the grace of Jesus with people who need to know you as Abba Father. Empower their words, protect their lives and families, and bless their efforts with fruit. Holy God, Almighty King, bless all those who serve you in difficult places today. Giving thanks is more than being thankful to God, it is letting others know of his gracious works so they too can come to know him as Father, Redeemer, and Victorious Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name make known among the nations what he has done. As that message, that word of Christ fills our hearts, we are tuned to be thankful children of the Most High. But the basis of all our songs is Jesus, and the proclamation of the good news that brings life to us through him. God is not only worthy of all of our praise, he is worthy of all of our thankfulness. We sing when we are happy. We sing when we are heartbroken.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. Please help me to live a more thankful, victorious life before my unbelieving friends and as an example to my children so they may come to share your glorious Kingdom and ultimate victory. Thank you for sharing your blessings, your promises, your hope, and your victory with us in Jesus.
Holy and Righteous Father, all things are yours. What else can we do but worship with heartfelt thanksgiving and wonder-struck awe? This Kingdom has started now in his Church, his people, those in whom God's will is cherished and obeyed. So our worship should be filled with awe that the holy God of Israel is also the lowly God in Jesus who has redeemed us and made us to be a holy people unto himself. But this Kingdom doesn't begin just when Jesus returns. We are receiving the triumphant and glorious victory of God in his Kingdom. We will join with the angels and the saints of old and live with the Father forever in victorious and never-ending joy. Since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
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