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One of the Easiest Ways to Glorify God

Fanny Crosby wrote over 8,000 hymns, including “Praise Him, Praise Him” and “To God Be the Glory.”

Before he was 20, Charles Spurgeon had preached over 600 times. He read six books per week and could recall what he had read and locate it, even years later. He started a pastors’ college that trained nearly 900 students during his lifetime. He is estimated to have preached to 10,000,000 people (The Reformed Reader). He answered 500 letters a week.

John Wesley rose at 4 a.m., traveled constantly, usually on horseback, formed societies, commissioned preachers, oversaw charities and even wrote hymns, including “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing.”

Did these folks ever cut their grass? Did they ever have to clean their gutters? And really—500 letters a week! I can barely keep up with a few emails each day. And I don’t even want to talk about guys like John Piper, who has probably written three books in the time it’s taken me to do this post.

Fortunately, we don’t have to be giants of the faith to glorify God. It’s pretty simple actually.

The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me (PS 50.23).

What could be easier? We can glorify God by giving thanks. But how does gratefulness honor the Lord?

Thankfulness shows we appreciate God’s costly mercy in saving us.

We were blind and dead in our sins, under God’s wrath, slaves of sin and Satan, without hope or God, and unable to save ourselves, when Jesus came down, suffered brutal torture, holy wrath and death to rescue us and bring us to God. How can we not be thankful?

If for no other reason other than the fact that he saved us, we should overflow with gratitude all the days of our lives. Even if God never gave us another blessing in this life, we should be eternally thankful.