Ephesians 5:20
20 Giving thanks [eucharisteo] always [pantote] for [huper] all things [pas] unto God [theos] and [kai] the Father [pater] in [en] the name [onoma] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ; [Christos] KJV-Interlinear
20
always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to
God, even the Father; NASB
Genuine thankfulness
comes from genuine appreciation.
Genuine appreciation comes
from a genuine capacity for life.
Genuine capacity comes
from the understanding of life by means of doctrine assimilated into the soul
by means of the one and only authorized method for learning and growing up in
the spiritual life.
That method of course is
the daily study of doctrine through instruction, and while in fellowship, which
fellowship is obtained by means of confession.
And so, when you know and
understand, and have grown up in your spiritual life, then you will truly become
thankful for all that God has done for you.
And this means all
things, both good things and bad things.
In the good things you
can easily become distracted away from your spiritual life by boasting or
thinking that you have earned or even deserve what it is that you have. It is easy to drop names, to promote
yourself. It is easy to boast or imply that you are somehow better than others,
or above average than the norm. It is
easy to self-promote and to fall into arrogance, losing sight of true
humbleness. It is easy to begin to look
down on others that are not as well off as you.
It is easy to forget that
God gave you all that you have and are, and that God can easily take it all
away in a heartbeat, leaving you with only your broken pride and embarrassment.
On the other hand, if you
have nothing and are under constant pressure, then that sort of leaves you only
God to look to and to whom you can place your trust. But the poor and suffering can also fall into
bitterness and hate and the blame game.
They can reject all responsibility and obligations, with any number of
excuses that justify their hate.
So, in all things,
whether great prosperity or great adversity or anything in between, we should
know that God placed us there, and He placed us there for a reason, which is to
learn to trust in Him alone and not ever on anything of this world.
God the Father is the
author of the divine plan. From Him
comes all the details of creation and life and everything.
God the Son, is the
mediator, through which we gain access to the Father. And that is the uniqueness of Christianity,
wherein all things must go through Christ, prior to being presented to the
Father. For there is no access to God
the Father, unless Christ is recognized as the one and only gateway to the
Father.
All religions, all
philosophies, all beliefs that are not of the genuine Christian faith, reject Christ. Even some so called Christian organizations,
which are not really Christian, reject Christ in His full and true role as both
God and man in one person, the unique person of the universe, and savior and
mediator.
And just to make things
clear, as to His role and mediator, it is Christ who actually caused and
accomplished the divine plan. Christ created, wherein the Father designed the
plans. This the divine design of
creation, and the actual creation cause by the conscious effort of God.
Life is no accident or
fluke, but follows a very specific pattern and design in all aspects.
Your life follows a very specific
plan for your life. You can either capitalize
to the maximum for yourself, Gods plan for your life, or you can screw things
up royal for yourself by means of your own stupid decisions.
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