"Give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness" (Psa 97:12).Please observe, it doesn't say, 'Give thanks at the remembrance of His goodness' or 'Give thanks at the remembrance of His blessings' but, 'Give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.' So, if you cannot thank God with a grateful heart, it is not because God has not done any good thing for you, but because you don't have holiness. Holiness is God's goodness. If you can enjoy God's holiness now you can enjoy God's goodness now and for all Eternity.
The Psalmist says, "I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living" (Psa 27:13). The Psalmist would have been discouraged had he not believed to see the goodness of the Lord. One goodness of the Lord is the holiness of God. Of course, the Psalmist did not fully experience the holiness of the Lord, but he certainly believed that a holy life is possible. That was the reason why he turned to the Lord with a broken heart and confessed his sins - as we find in Psalm 51.
The simple truth is that, if you don't believe to see the goodness of the Lord or the holiness of the Lord in your life, one day you are going to faint or be discouraged. Those who love holiness will never be discouraged as they will be enjoying the fulness of the goodness of God in the land of the living. As one saint says, holy life is "Canaan flowing with milk and honey."
- Late Pastor T.U.Thomas in 'Morning Manna'
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