Remembering to be thankful is critically important. I think the peace I feel when I thank God comes because it is something we are supposed to do. Thinking about what He has done in our lives prepares our hearts to believe for the next time faith is needed.

People tend to forget pain over time. Pain is a bad teacher. Love is not as easily forgotten.

The Bible is full of stories of how God performed extraordinary wonders in the lives of ordinary people. So even if you can’t think of one time God performed some miracle in your life or worked out a situation that you thought was impossible, your own salvation is interwoven into the tapestry of the Bible.

The word “meditate” here has many meanings, but it seems to go right along with speaking about what God has done.

We are to share what God has done in our lives by speaking it. God gave our words the power of creation and also the power to destroy.

Speak what God has done over your life.

Speak what God has done over your children.

Share what God has done with others that their faith might also be built.

Romans‬ ‭1‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ says, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”

When you stop being thankful to God, it leads to vain imaginations and then eventually to a darkened heart.

In being thankful, we “bless” the Lord by favoring Him.

When we pray, we are thankful and when we are thankful, we pray. So prayer and thankfulness go hand-in-hand with one another.

In becoming “vain” in their imaginations, their thoughts are empty and foolish.

It is important that we never cease to be thankful in the first place. The downward spiral of foolishness in our thinking eventually leads to a “darkened” or “blinded” heart. If we blind our heart, we cannot hear or respond to the voice of God as clearly as we should. If we continue in that direction, we may find that we have strayed away from God entirely.

Thankfulness should not be something we do on occasion. We should always have an attitude of thankfulness, so that our hearts stay open and tuned to the voice of our Heavenly Father.