Thank-You

Thank-you, Lord. Thank-you for breathable air. Thank-you for that spark of electricity that keeps my heart beating and the unfathomable way you uphold all things by the word of your power. Thank-you for the perfect tilt of the earth and the equilibrium between the mountain heights and the ocean depths. Thank-you for the platypus, a creature that stupefies the rationality of man and simultaneously displays your wondrous and whimsical creativity. Thank-you for displaying in your Son the knowledge that the earth is round, as seen when he said that when he returns, there will be two in bed; one will be taken and one left, and there will be two in the field; one will be taken and one will be left – day and night occurring simultaneously. Thank-you for sending your Son to start a new spiritual creation that will both outlive and outshine this present fallen one. Thank-you that he did not come the first time to judge the world, but that through him the world might be saved. Thank-you for exhausting your holy wrath on Him instead of on a deserving world. Thank-you for raising saints from the dead at the time of Christ’s death to picture the lives that would come to know eternal life through faith in that finished work. Thank-you for raising Jesus from the grave and making a tomb a place of hope. Thank-you for putting two angels in there that day, at the foot and the head of where he lay, to mirror the cherubim on the mercy seat. Thank-you for receiving Christ into heaven to sit at your right hand until we are made just like him at his second advent. Thank-you for giving us your word preserved already through two millennia, and proving to us time and time again that it can be trusted. Thank-you for such a great cloud of witnesses who have been faithfully declaring the good news of sins forgiven by the cross of Christ. Thank-you for the staggering fact that you would ever even desire to make the soul of man your home, let alone the fact that you did it by making us new in Christ. Thank-you for stirring the heart of a mother to simply believe the gospel and then make her resolute in having her children captured by that great love displayed in Christ. Thank-you for using that simple woman to save a young man who but for your grace would have been leagues upon dark leagues from you. Thank-you for sending that young man a young woman, leaving him so smitten that he must discover the source of peace and hope she had. Thank-you for using the same grace that saved him to change him from a babe in Christ to a growing child in the Kingdom of the Son of your love. Thank-you for giving he and his wife three children to continually enrapture, enamour, and endear them, and teaching them that you do not love less like earthly parents, but infinitely more. Thank-you for the presence of your Son in your Heaven as the advocate for the tripped-up believer, and the representative prototype of what all believers will be one day when your grace has finished its work. Thank-you for a salvation that cannot be rescinded, reversed, or retracted, and that because the Saviour is unimpeachable, irreproachable and unquestionable. Thank-you for Jesus. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. Thank-you that his very presence was a welcome invitation to children and that he befriended Judas to the end. Thank-you that he loved Peter enough to rebuke him for having the devil’s mind. Thank-you that he would come to this fallen planet and be called a friend of sinners. Thank-you for making him of no earthly reputation to be the living lesson that whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Thank-you that he was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin. Thank-you for making him who knew no sin to be sin for us to condemn sin in the flesh. Thank-you that he cried out on the cross, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” to then say to us after you raised him from the dead, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” Thank-you, Great Father, for being just like your Son, and for sending the Spirit of your Son into our hearts by which we cry, “Abba Father!” Thank-you.