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Made For More: Building for the Future

Made for Gratitude

Daniel Foster

Celebration of God’s goodness often rests on someone else’s faithfulness.

Nehemiah 12:27

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.

A Moment of Faithfulness Before Joshua

Joshua 4:4-7

So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.

A Moment of Faithfulness Before David

2 Samuel 6:14–15

Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.

A Moment of Faithfulness Before Solomon

1 Kings 8:15

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David.

A Moment of Faithfulness Before Nehemiah

Nehemiah 12:40

The two choirs that gave thanks then took their places in the house of God; so did I, together with half the officials.

A Moment of Faithfulness Before the Shepherds

Luke 2:20

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

A Moment of Faithfulness Before the Early Church

Acts 2:46-47

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Praise is the proper response to God’s goodness.