As we convene with our families today to celebrate God's provision, consider ten incentives to praise God for his goodness (there are, of course, far more than ten):
1. Praise God- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit- that he alone has accomplished your redemption. Exult in the Father's sovereign, immutable, electing love (cf. Eph. 1:4), without which we would never believe in His Son. Rejoice that the Son has bought us with his precious blood (cf. 1 Pet. 1:19) and ransomed men out of every ethnicity (cf. Rev. 5:9).
2. Glorify God that he does "according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, 'What have you done (cf. Dan. 4:35)?'"
3. In view of God's exhaustive, all-extending sovereignty, thank him that he is working all things to our good (cf. Rom. 8:28).
4. Sing with joy that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea (cf. Hab. 2:14)."
5. Remember that the Lord has not left us orphans but has sent us the Holy Spirit (cf. John 14:18).
6. Marvel at the Spirit's work in interceding for us according to the will of God (cf. Rom. 8:27).
7. Be grateful for the beatific vision: that the Lord has promised that his holy saints will get the unspeakable privilege of seeing God (cf. Heb. 12:14)!
8. Rest in the fact that God will provide every need we will have (cf. Phil. 4:19).
9. Wonder that the eternal Son of God left the heights of heaven to come to the dregs of this fallen world in obedience to the Covenant of Redemption (cf. John 1:14).
10. Shout with glee that Christ bore the full force wrath of God in our place by becoming a curse for us (cf. Gal. 3:13).
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