What You Must Do in Hard Times

 "I will bless Thee while I live...."

Psalm 63:4

When God has set us in hard places, often our first response is to look for an escape while we grumble all the way.  We acknowledge He's sovereign, but we look for a way around it.  "Thy will be done.." is easiest said when livin' is easy and things are going just as we planned.  Sometimes He leaves us in hard places for awhile...we see no end in sight, and discouragement sets in.  Daily giving thanks for all of His mercies, and yes, there are too many to even name, holds us back from walking in those bitter places, and it's our privilege, our duty, to do so no matter where His good and loving Hand leads us.

"Praising God must be the work of our whole lives; we must always maintain a grateful sense of His former favors and repeat our thanksgivings for them.  We must every day give thanks to Him for the benefits with which we are daily loaded.  We must in every thing give thanks, and not be put out of frame for this duty by any of the afflictions of this present time.  Whatever days we live to see, how dark and cloudy soever, though the days come of which we say, "We have no pleasure in them," yet still every day must be a thanks-giving-day, even to our dying-day.  In this work we must spend our time because in this work we hope to spend a blessed eternity."
~Matthew Henry

Love,