Plenty to Thank God For

“Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. (2 Corinthians 9:15)

"Unspeakable," what is the meaning of that word?  

No words can properly express the greatness of the gift
Thus bestowed on man.
It is higher than the mind can conceive;
Higher than language can express. – Albert Barnes

Wonder beyond description, – A.T. Robertson

I am thankful for many things. I thank God for life. He is our creator who took special care, attention, and personal interest in our making.

I am thankful for how God furnished our planet for us. Can you imagine how hard it would be to try to survive on Mars? There are a lot of rocks there but I don’t think we’d survive long. Instead, he gave us green grass and trees.

He gave us glorious lights from above: the sun by day and then turned down the dimmer and supplied the moon and stars by night.

He supplied oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams, but also placed water beneath the ground for us to draw from and springs gushing out. He gave us the hydrologic cycle resulting in rain even in dry places and dew from the heavens. There is water just about everywhere on this planet. Just what we needed.

He gave us amazing creatures that we might have dominion over: Anteaters, bears, chinchillas, donkeys, eagles, foxes, geese, hippopotami, ibexes, jaguars, kangaroos, llamas, monkeys … the whole alphabet plus thousands of others.

He gave us plant life: Beautiful greenery all over, multicolored flowering trees, shrubs and plants.

He gave us herbs and luscious fruit: Avocados, papaya, pears, apples, oranges, lemons, berries of all kinds and grapes. It has been estimated that there are over 2,000 kinds of fruits. Most of us only know about around 200 of them. Then, I’m sure there are hundreds of kinds of vegetables as well.

God gave us marvelous bodies with bones, sinews, tendons, joints, arteries, capillaries, veins, skin and various functioning organs which work to keep us alive and healthy. He gave us a heart to keep our remarkable blood pumping and a brain so we could think, reason, be creative and keep our other organs working even as we sleep.

That’s another thing God gave us – sleep.

He gave us the ability to reproduce just as he did for all living things. He gave us the companionship of man/woman and he gave us marriage, children and the family unit.

God gave us friends, society with government and the right to maintain a civilization. He gave us the ability to provide a living for ourselves with talents and skills. He gave us ground enriched with oil, precious metals, chemicals for fertilizer and many other resources.

God gave us the bible, written through people of faith. He gave us his commandments and then faith and grace.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (James 1.17)

The greatest gift God gave is his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; who left heaven and came down to this lost dark world. Jesus is God’s gift of salvation to an otherwise hopeless humanity.

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! (2 Corinthians 9.15)