Day 7: Gratitude focus – A relative

Quality or name of God – Righteous

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“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” (French Proverb)

Ideas for demonstrating gratitude to the person of focus today:

»  – Call or send an email to thank them for their impact in your life.

»$ – Write a thank you note or letter to your relative of focus. Send it through the mail to arrive later this week. Share a favorite memory of an event or act of kindness that influenced you in a positive way.

$ – Either through the mail, by personal delivery, or via local delivery service, send an inexpensive “just-because-I-love-you” gift to your gratitude recipient—a plant, a favorite game for the family to play when you get together, a gift certificate for a manicure or a massage, etc.—and be sure to include a note of appreciation!

 » = free      »$ = minimal cost     $ = cost involved

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“I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.” (Psalm 7:17, NIV)

In today’s focus verse, the Hebrew word for God’s righteousness is tsedeq. This word refers to His justice and speaks to the honesty of His character. In ancient markets, scales were commonplace for weighing the item being purchased. Sadly, many sellers would use “unjust weights” and cheat their customers by making false claims as to what the customer was receiving.

In the “just” scales, however, there was nothing false hidden within them that would create an insincere measurement of anything being weighed. A merchant with a “just weight” could be trusted. He was honest and sincere.

Like the Psalmist, we simply must give thanks to the Lord because of His righteousness! God is true to His promises and can be trusted to do—and to be—what He says. Does it GET any better than that?

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Additional reading (for reading through the Psalms in 30 days):

Psalm 7, 37, 67, 97, 127