Who Is Thankful For You? (a Really Really Brief Sermon Summary)

In Ezra 3 the Israelites have returned to rebuild the Temple, to pour the foundations. It’s been over 50 years. Some are excited, glad to be home; some see only the destruction and rubble.

They all know Psalm 79, a song of captivity and an awaited freedom. A desire to praise YHWH for the rescue that follows their cries to Him. But now in the land they asked to return to not everyone is giving thanks, no matter what the passage says.

This thanksgiving we are in the same state: some of us give thanks to God for His provisions; some feel that God has yet to come through. For every praise given in a church or around the table, there is a pain felt by someone close by.

So the question must be changed: not “what are you thankful for?”, but “who is thankful for you?” Who gives thanks to God for your presence in their lives? Who sees the hands and feet of God at work, rebuilding the temple of their lives, through you?

Here is a great place to start answering that question Isaiah 58:6-14

November 25, 2011 | Filed Under Sermon/Sermon notes

 

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