Having just celebrated Thanksgiving in worship and family gatherings, it’s time to repay God.  I know those words are theologically dangerous.  Yet Psalm 116:12 poses the question, “How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?” 

The psalmist surely knows we can never repay God for all of His goodness for us.  Pay Him back for sacrificing His only Son to redeem us from sin and death?  No way!  It just can’t be done, question closed, right?  Well then, why the question?

God doesn’t demand repayment.  But He does call us to live lives of thanks and service for Him.  Children can never repay their parents for the years of sacrificial caring they receive.  Parents ask for two responses: that their children love them as they are loved, and be willing to pass their love on to the next generation.  We children of the Heavenly Father “repay” or live our response in the same two ways: by loving Him and passing on that love to others through what we say and do!

When we slip in our love for God and our service to others, we need only remember “all His goodness to me!”  That goodness begins with His forgiving me over and over again for my sins through my Savior Jesus Christ.  It continues with so many blessings that flow into my life.  Just take a moment and count those blessings and you will from the heart exclaim, “How can I repay the Lord?”

God has no problem supplying us with opportunities for us to respond, that is, to be thanks-filled worshipers of our good God, to be thanks-filled examples to our families and the young ones around us, and to do good for the least, the last and the lost so that they too can know and live for Jesus!

I thank God for each of you!!  Love, Pastor Craig