DEEPLY GRATEFUL AND ABSOLUTELY CONTENT

Today is 31st December 2025, the last day of the year. We have already seen 364 days, and in a few hours, we will enter into the new year 2026. What do we see when we look back at 2025. When I look back at the year 2025, I see a mixture of joy and pain; happy times and sad times; good experiences and bad experiences; good people and hurtful people. I see my errors, mistakes, failures and blunders. I also see, my successes, good choices, right decisions and innumerable blessings from God. It is a mixed bag, because life is always a mixed bag.

Above all my blunders and the beautiful things I experienced in 2025, I see the invisible hand of God and His love, grace, mercy and forgiveness chasing me, and overtaking me. I see God’s hand helping me and guiding me through the ups and downs. I see the providence of God providing all what I need. I see the protection of God over me, and over all that concerns me. 

I see the LORD God Almighty being kind, gracious and patient with me, despite I not deserving it. I see God being faithful to me, despite my impatience, and at times disobedience. If it were not for the LORD Jesus Christ, I would not be seeing this day. The enemy would have destroyed me a long while ago. All glory to the LORD!

If I have to say, all what I experienced in 2025, in one word, I would say “BLESSED” beyond expectations. I am “DEEPLY GRATEFUL” towards God for all what He has done for me, and “ABSOLUTELY CONTENT” about 2025, and my life in general. I cannot express in words, all what I feel towards God. I have no requests for God, though I have many needs. All I have for God is, thankfulness and gratitude, because God had provided all what I need. I need nothing more. Anything I will ever receive is the overflowing abundance of God’s goodness, grace and mercy toward me. Do I seem like a man having any room for needs and requests? My cup runneth over. What more do I need?
– “A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.” – John Bunyan

What about you dear brother and sister? How was your 2025? Let us look at David’s approach to life, its needs and what should be our topmost on our minds, and the priority number one in our hearts, as a Christian.
– “​1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.” – Psalm 9:1-2

Here is the list of things that David wanted to do while expressing his gratitude towards the LORD his God. We can take them to be a pattern for ourselves this morning, on the last day of the year 2025. 
– I WILL PRAISE THEE, O LORD
– WITH MY WHOLE HEART
– I WILL SHEW FORTH ALL THY MARVELLOUS WORKS
– I WILL BE GLAD and REJOICE IN THEE
– I WILL SING PRAISE TO THY NAME, O THOU MOST HIGH

David, if we observe, is always thankful and grateful to God. This is something that we as Christians should learn, and learn it quickly. Such an attitude is a revelation of the heart of a Christian, and his faith and trust in His God.
– “A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.” – Billy Graham

May we always praise, thank and worship the LORD our God, with a grateful heart, more than, we come seeking Him, with requests and help for our needs, however significant and pressing our needs might be. Let us learn to trust the LORD, who is Jehovah Jireh, to meet all what we need. Hasn’t He provided all what we need, and protected us from every harm and danger, ever so faithfully, in all the years that have passed us by? If He had done so, will He not do so even in the year ahead? Let us be childlike in our attitude and approach towards God, and never be childish. Let us ever be grateful, thankful and content. Even so, the LORD help us.