Thank You

When I go out of my way to do a favour for a friend, I like it when they come back and say “thank you”. I’m not doing it because I just want to hear you say “thank you” for some lame egotistic reason. I’m doing it simply because I love you and I want to make you happy. Weird, but when you are happy, I'm happy. You may ask, what’s the point of saying “thank you” when I already know that you appreciate it? Well, maybe the best person to direct that question to is the wife who had a busy and lousy day in the office but came back home to spend 2 hours in the kitchen cooking up a storm so that her husband can have something exciting to eat when he gets back from work. Or maybe even that guy who works over-time just so that he can make some extra cash to move his family out of the slumps. A simple “thank you” will not help me lose weight, neither will it magically get me a job at the World Bank, but it will brighten my day and encourage me to keep doing good things for you.

It’s really difficult for me to imagine that God feels any different. He goes through all that trouble to make sure that the most qualified people do not get that job of your dreams just so that you can have a shot at it and get it. He breaks as many hearts as possible just to make sure that your wife does not end up marrying someone else before she meets you (Isaiah 43:4). Since before you were born He’s been working and orchestrating things so that you can get the best that there is of anything that you want. All that effort, all that planning and all that domino effect was done for you. He could have taken a break and gone to bed (psalm 121:4) but He did not.

So what can you give to a God that has everything (because He created everything!) Well, you could start by showing some appreciation. Let’s make this simple… repeat after me:

“Thank You God for all you have done for me”.