Hymn of the Month: My Heart Is Filled with Thankfulness

There's a reason Ephesians 5 exhorts us to give thanks immediately after we're told to sing hymns. Because you can't ever sing a hymn the way God wants you to sing it if you're not thankful first. 

When your heart is filled with thankfulness, amazing things start to happen. You'll discover that . . .

• You're not bitter. You can't be bitter and thankful at the same time. It doesn't work!
• You're not self-centered. You're focusing on the Giver of all good things -- physical and spiritual. Especially those spiritual gifts (as our hymn highlights for us).
• You're focusing on what you do have rather than what you don't have. This breeds spiritual  contentment!
• Your heart settles into that peaceful place where you are closest to God. Without discontentment or covetousness or other distractions in our way, we're free to lean in to Him and hear what He has said, receive what He has given and respond to His magnificent love with our own feeble -- yet sincere -- love.

True, gratitude does a world of good for us on a human, personal level but it does something even greater on a spiritual level. It moves our hearts where they need to be to worship God wholeheartedly.

Read the November Hymn of the Month and its related resources here.