Triumphant Thanksgiving
“Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue me from their destructions, My precious life from the lions. I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people” Psalms 35:17-18 NKJV Triumphant thanksgiving is soothing to many people and not the preceding troubles and trials; but how sweet is the sound of triumph without the preceding scent of troubles and trials? By the thanksgiving agenda of the psalmist, we understand that the sweetness of thanksgiving is always in the scent of troubles and trials: “ I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people ”. What is the composition of the thanksgiving’s great assembly; and who are those that makes its many people? Wouldn’t they have included the psalmist’s fierce witnesses, attackers, and ungodly mockers, who previously feasted on his troubles and trials? So, why the “ Lord, how long will You look on? “. Anyway, the ultimate experience of believers in life’s battlefiel...