Do you give thanks for the times in which you have been healed in your body? When you get a cold, you perhaps already leap ahead to assuming that you’re going to get better. But it’s only because of the Lord Jesus that you can be healed of a cold and so give thanks, if you have been healed from a cold, or if you’ve been healed from something much more serious, give thanks.
It comes from a place of humility. I find it very helpful to look at my life and to think, “Wow, who am I to receive such things? I am no one; I deserve nothing. Yet here I have this. Thank you, thank you.”
And then this is a particular note for those of you who are married, especially to husbands…
Do you thank your wives? As husbands, you must give thanks to your wives, that’s a good way of obeying the command of Ephesians to love your wives.[1]
Similarly, children, you must give thanks to your parents, it’s one of the best ways to honour them, as you are commanded to do in the Ten Commandments.[2]
[1] Ephesians 5:28, “In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”
[2] Exodus 20:12, “Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
