Mean What You Sing

What does it mean to give God thanks in all circumstances?

Just this morning we were singing this lovely song which goes "In all things we give You thanks. We give You praise and thanksgiving".  As Christians how often do we mean what we sing?  Sometimes we have to be careful what we sing.  Some of the times we unknowingly sing and make a promise to God that we cannot keep.  How hurtful is that to God? 

The reason I'm saying this is because after all the songs we sang in service this morning, the trials came flowing in and it's not that easy to say to God "In all things I give You thanks.  I give You praise and thanksgiving".  When trials hit us it's just so so hard to give thanks to God in ALL things.  

Let's say things just haven't been working out for me for the past few weeks.  Plans were disrupted for certain reasons, people were hurt in the process.  Everything was so wrong and the songs that were sang were just a pool full of lies and broken promises that was made.  How many of us can say that after we've put in so much effort into planning and organizing something and nothing just goes well?  I guess we will all hate it and feel disappointed and discouraged.  I myself am very disappointed with what happened over this 2 days but I thank God that in the end everything just worked out so well.  Truly God is good all the time.

Though I may be discouraged.  Though I may be hurt but I know that God's plan is always perfect.  He knows what's going to happen next.  Nothing happened by accident and I believe that God has planned everything perfectly for us.  It's up to us to see God's purpose in His plans.  

So I would like to say be careful of what you sing.  Mean what you sing or don't sing at all.  Stop making empty promises to God.