Someone to Thank

 

“And let us give thanks for Someone to thank.” 
Gerhard E. Frost

I was looking through my quotation book, “Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World,” to see if there were any quotes about Thanksgiving I could use in this post and came across the one above.

I liked the words and decided to look up the person who said it. I could find no information on the writer except for the simple words, “he was a well-known author, speaker, Bible teacher, and seminary professor.”

I found out the quote is the last line in a poem Frost wrote titled: “Let Us Give Thanks.” The poem is appropriate for this month of Thanksgiving.

 “Let us give thanks this moment: for the sturdy fact of God’s continuing love, for mercies which go before us and follow after us, for those free gifts which cost God so much.

 “Let us give thanks: for memory and expectation, for the good that we have known and know today in Jesus Christ, for the Spirit’s brooding presence in our nights and our days.

 “Let us give thanks: for pleasures which comfort and pains which force our growth and keep us at the Shepherd’s side, for deep meanings revealed and mysteries mercifully concealed, for the image of God within us, the capacity to inquire and adore.

  “Let us give thanks for one another, for just being together, for differences that complement and  complete, for gifts which enrich and disagreements which challenge, for our oneness in Christ.

"Let us give thanks for melody and mirth, for rhythm and beat, for the repeated and the common, for the ever-unfolding, and for senses with which to respond.

And let us give thanks for Someone to thank."

There are many reasons you may have to be thankful this year. Family, health, work, love, abilities, friends, and hundreds of other reasons. Yet, there is Someone who gave us a Person to believe in, to live for and to thank for all things. That Someone is God, our Redeemer and Savior, Jesus Christ.

 Happy Thanksgiving!

By His Grace . . .