A.C.T.S. A prayer acronym. Adoration-Confession-Thanksgiving-Supplication.
Thanksgiving. Giving thanks. Being thankful. A state of thankfulness. I find myself doing a pretty good job of thanking God for the big, the tangible, the spiritual. Health. Salvation. A wonderful wife. A solid job. A growing church. An idea about work!?
Thank God for an idea? Why not.
This year at work we have been bombarded with a new program that has several components. I have struggled with how to illustrate these various components in a graphic way to help not just myself, but everyone at school to see the interconnections of each piece. I have been praying, wondering, struggling with how to develop such an idea picture. This morning about 15 minutes before the alarm as I was starting to return from Slumberland, the graphic for which I had been searching appeared in my mind's eye. Eureka! The proverbial light bulb appeared in my mind's eye. He deserved thanks for that.
He deserved thanks for:
A- Providing the idea by placing it there independently of anything else
OR
B- Allowing me to have accessed the various articles, ideas, and conversations over the past several months that gave me the background knowledge which finally coallesed into a final product.
Creation or evolution--doesn't matter to me. Either way at the end of the day, it was God who brought me to that particular point in my thinking. He provided me with the image I needed.
That idea needs to be on my thanksgiving list. Was it peace in the Middle East? Did a loved one survive a major medical scare? No and no. But it was a good gift from God. So why not thank Him?
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. . . James 1:17 ESV
Let's not forget to thank God for ideas, sleep, good conversation, and all those little things that might not warrant a Facebook post but are still a good and perfect gift from Him.
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