When Saying Thank You Isn't Enough

The other morning I was doing what most of us women do ALL the time. I was multitasking. I was eating my honey nut cheerios, while facebooking, while answering email, and while "watching" Fox and Friends morning news program. In the midst of all the hullabaloo, I heard a snippet that caught my attention.

It was said by a mother of a girl who, I believe, had some sort of brain tumor. Apparently, their insurance decided that they weren't going to cover the surgery to save this girl's life. When a compassionate soul heard about it (I am not sure who it was or how they found out about it), they intervened. The girl was able to have the surgery; it was successful and her life was spared.

Now here's the snippet. Remember it was the mother talking:

"Saying thank you just isn't enough. I mean, you say thank you to someone who holds the door for you. What do you say to someone who saved your child's life?"

(Please note that I am paraphrasing. In the midst of all the multitasking, I didn't have the wherewithal to stop and write down her quote verbatim. AND, anyway, it has been in the hours and days since I heard it that the Holy Spirit has really burned my soul with it.)

Don't you ever feel that saying thank you to God just isn't enough? I do. All the time. When I realize how faithful He has been, and how faithless I can be--and yet He patiently waits for me. When I mess up again and again and again, stumbling over that same sin for the umpteenth time, and yet He still loves me, forgives me, and calls me to His work. When I realize what it means that He sent His son to this dying earth to die for me. For MY transgressions. MY white lies. MY hypocrisy. My sin.

Saying thank you really just isn't enough, now is it? So what then do we do?

The past two weekends I have heard messages from women who are so filled with His Spirit that they are bursting at the seams to tell of His love and His faithfulness. Women who are so in love with Him and His Word. Women who daily devour His Word in such a hungry manner that they can't get enough. And once they've "digested" it, they share it with those whom God has placed in their paths.

I believe, dear Sisters, that THAT is how we say thank you. We immerse ourselves in Him--in His Word, seeking His face and voice. We daily find ourselves on the great adventure of reading the only God-breathed book in the universe. We join others on this great walk of faith of Bible study and encourage them, learn from them, and serve with them.

Then, and only then, when we ourselves are so full up with Him that we could explode, are we prepared and ready to share Him with a lost and dying word. And that world is right outside our doors. Or maybe inside them, too.

We have been blessed with so many opportunities for in-depth Bible study at EBC. And we will be blessed even more in the months to come. Please prayerfully consider saying THANK YOU to our Lord by sojourning with your fellow sisters in the walk of faith that is born through reading, studying, digesting, and sharing the love letter that was God-breathed for such a time as this.

His,

Jen