Those who look for a reason to praise God always wait for the spectacular to happen before they can show gratitude. But God is not a dramatis persona. He can't be boxed into any particular way. To look for a reason to praise God is to merely look for ways to justify your ingratitude. Our text says, "In every thing give thanks," suggesting that gratitude should be our nature. Whether in good or bad times, you're encouraged and instructed to praise God!
I don't have to seek a reason to praise God; I'd praise him anyhow and in any place. I'd offer him my reasonable act of worship, knowing that I'm a living sacrifice (Rom. 12: 1). And if peradventure I need a reason to praise God, it'd definitely be about Jesus and His finished work on the cross that purchased my salvation. It definitely won't be about my possession of material goods or healing, deliverance or promotion. Are these not deserving of our worship to God? They sure do, but what becomes of us when these fail to happen to us?!
I came to challenge you not to fall to the lie that God is unworthy and undeserving of your praise. Don't yield to the devil's tricks that suggests to you to trade your praise in exchange of what God has freely blessed you with, which is yet to come into your hands. Live the life of praise giver as your natural habitat. Remember it is God's will for you to praise him, and this will doesn't have an attached condition of seeking a reason that justifies whether or not to praise him!
