Giving Thanks For the Fellow Saints!

1Co 1:4 "I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,"


When was the last time in our prayers, that we stopped and gave thanks for the salvation of other saints? I am sure that this is a most neglected action in our prayer time. I had never even thought about it, until I was reading over the intro to Paul's letter to the Corinthians. During our prayer times, when we give thanks and praise to God for the salvation of other Saints, we are giving thanks to God for his bountiless grace and mercies which he gave to us by Jesus Christ. I can think of nothing more wonderful, than giving God thanks for the wonderful gift of salvation by grace through faith, for it is nothing we deserve or earn by our merit.

Eph 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,"

The grace which God bestowed on us by sending Christ, "is the gift of God" so no man can have pride or boast in the gift of grace. All the thanks and glory go to God, the giver of life. The thought of God being gracious to us sinners, ought to drive us to our knees, giving God the glory and praise for such a wonderful and glorious gift; and giving thanks that our fellow Saints too have recieved so great and wonderful a salvation.

May the words of Thomas Ken fill our hearts with the awe and wonder of God:

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.