Short Sermon - by Hamir "The Storyteller" Achacoso
In everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus - 1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks....really? Am I reading/hearing this right? Give thanks in everything really means EVERYTHING?
A friend is in the hospital dying, politician stealing people's money, somebody's got robbed today, a networking business stole all your saving, your neighbor is hungry, an old lady needs somebody to help her carry her grocery, a young kid walks 5 kilometers just to attend school, people eating dirt to survive, etc.
Yes, we should give thanks for we see these things. God gave us the capacity to feel, see what is happening in the world. Now we see the need. We need to act, react, go, mobilize, work, give our shoulder to somebody, feed somebody, give water to thirsty, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice.
Now this passages from James is really alive. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. - James 1:27
May you be blessed so you could be a blessing to other people, may you be an answer to their questions, may you see the need and may you act and change the world, may you see the reason to GIVE THANKS in everything/everyday. God bless you more.
In everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus - 1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks....really? Am I reading/hearing this right? Give thanks in everything really means EVERYTHING?
A friend is in the hospital dying, politician stealing people's money, somebody's got robbed today, a networking business stole all your saving, your neighbor is hungry, an old lady needs somebody to help her carry her grocery, a young kid walks 5 kilometers just to attend school, people eating dirt to survive, etc.
Yes, we should give thanks for we see these things. God gave us the capacity to feel, see what is happening in the world. Now we see the need. We need to act, react, go, mobilize, work, give our shoulder to somebody, feed somebody, give water to thirsty, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice.
Now this passages from James is really alive. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. - James 1:27
May you be blessed so you could be a blessing to other people, may you be an answer to their questions, may you see the need and may you act and change the world, may you see the reason to GIVE THANKS in everything/everyday. God bless you more.