THE JOY OF HAVING A GOD I thank God I am growing everyday in - TopicsExpress

THE JOY OF HAVING A GOD I thank God I am growing everyday in my thankfulness. One of the most miserable places you can be in your life is in a place of thanklessness. But with everyday the Lord is helping me to be content. A child of God has much to be thankful for. Even if he or she has little on earth, they have much awaiting them in heaven. Yet as I reflect on my life, God has been very gracious to me. I have a wife and children, I have food and clothing, I have a bed and clean water. And when I think on these things I am thankful. I thank God from whom all blessings come. But who does the atheist thank? In a world without God, is there even room for thankfulness? Is being thankful even rational if there is no God? Some may say yes, but to whom or what do you give thanks? The earth? The animal that died that you might eat? Yourself? Sure, you could give thanks to those things, but it all seems so vain. If history teaches us anything, its that man is prone to fail -- always. Am I thankful to myself? No, why should I be. I did not choose to be born, and I mess up far too much to merit any kind of thanks. Am I thankful to the earth? No, I am thankful FOR the earth, and the blessings and abundance it provides. Ultimately my thanks goes to the one from whom all these good things come from. To thank an object is insane. I would never say “thank you” to my chicken breast and steak. They did not choose to end up on my plate. I thank God for the blessing of chicken and steak! Far from relaxing and enjoying life, most atheists I have encountered are gloomy blighters with a depressing and nihilistic message that there is no purpose to life so wheres the point of anything? They so often fall into the category defined by GK Chesterton: Those that do not have the faith will not have the fun. You only have to attend one of their dreary humanist funerals to see that – I am never going to another of those, just to be made miserable. In a Godless worldview, thankfulness is unmerited. There is no point to be thankful, because there is no transcendent Deity to thank. You can go ahead and be thankful to whatever object or entity you deem appropriate, but it will only leave you more empty. You can thank the earth, but it can’t hear you. You can thank the chicken you’re about to eat, but it won’t comprehend your thanks. You can thank yourself, but you did not choose to be born and will one day cease to exist (Plus you’re a lousy source to thank). As for me, I thank God. Thank you Lord, you are worthy!