What
Thanks ...?!
by Cathy Vinson |
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Interesting way to
need empowerment and ability...finding adequate inner resources to give back to God! Such
a lavish spillage of joy, joy so tight and extensive within Paul, Silas and Timothy, that
they were helpless unto it. "What thanks...?"; where can they find the type of
thanks that can
repay? All they know is that they MUST!!
With such a fullness of joy regarding this beloved people at Thessalonica, they had to do
something! "CAN we render..." (from dunamis - to be able, to have power)...did
they have the ability to repay in thanks? It's one thing to find ability towards God when
in need of joy, quite another thing altogether to find adequate resources towards Him when
so filled with it. It's one thing to cast cares off from upon us, a perplexing one indeed
to cast worthy thanks from upon us. All we know is our souls require that we MUST get it
back to its Blessed Source!
Drenched with such joy, and while we are swimming in something so vast and wonderful and
not of ourselves, we wonder how we are swimming. How can we deal and also "deal
back" with it?
"What thanks...?" Have we found it, you and I? the type that actually gives back
to God? How do we get such heaps of explosive joy off of ourselves to where all Glory
rightly and desirably belongs? Can we?
Oh, God, help us with this helpless pursuit...to adequately give back, to render, to
repay, to return to You. May it ever give You great glory as we endeavor to find the
answer to our unanswerable dilemma: "what thanks...?"
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