Where Thankfulness Wins

"In some of the best worship songs, we bring our praises to God yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves." - Matt Redman

Sometimes, for no reason at all, you “wake up on the wrong side of the bed.”

You can drag that sorry self throughout your day,

Or you can grab your coffee and do something outrageous, something out of the box:

Not read your daily devotional first.

Not try to dig into the Word first when your mind is off-kilter.

Definitely not scroll your social media and news headlines first.

But first, awaken the dawn.

Put on the tunes and sing.

Put the “wrong side of the bed” in its rightful place.

Whatever is True and Love and full of Hope, sing it like you don’t care if anyone is listening.

Because the best Sunday morning vitamin, or for any other day of the week

Is not always the one that is written

But the one that is first played or cranked up and sung.

Thankfulness wins every time...

“My heart is committed, O God:

    I will sing;

I will sing praises with great affection

    and pledge my whole soul to the singing.

Wake up the harp and lyre, and strum the strings;

    I will stir the sleepy dawn from slumber!

I will stand and offer You my thanks, Eternal One, in the presence of others;

    I will sing of Your greatness among the nations no matter where I am.

For Your amazing love soars overhead far into the heavens;

    Your truth rises up to the clouds

    where passing light bends.

O God, that You would be lifted up above the heavens in the hearts of Your people

    until the whole earth knows Your glory.”—Psalm 108:1-5, The Voice