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Monday - November 22, 2021Thanks Be to GodIt is much easier to say “I am thankful” than to say as Paul did, “Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Romans 7:25). The first does not commit the man. It is broad enough to afford footroom to retreat if someone should challenge him. The second burns its bridges and takes up its cross.In these last bright brown days of autumn, we will be reminded a hundred times that we have a world of blessings for which we should render thanks. Let’s not withhold our expressions of gratitude. Thankfulness that is put into words has a healing effect upon the soul and has a good effect upon those who hear. But let’s avoid pagan ambiguity. “For us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (1 Corinthians 8:6).VerseYet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 1 Corinthians 8:6ThoughtMartin Rinkart expressed it well when he wrote: "All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given, the Son, and Him who reigns with them in highest heaven, the one eternal God, whom earth and heaven adore; for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore."PrayerAll thanks to You, O God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, blest Three-In-One.