The baseball player Lou Gehrig took the microphone at Yankee Stadium in 1939 to announce his retirement from baseball because of a wasting disease called ALS, now often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was a young major league record holder, but within two years he would become completely paralyzed and then die. Yet what Lou Gehrig said to those Yankee fans was how grateful he was for his life, for baseball, and for his family. Gehrig said: "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth..."

The psalmist is telling us something similar here. Say “thank you” to God! Say thank you because God is faithful and God’s love lasts forever.

Every evening, I sit with God and look back on the day and ask, “What am I most grateful for?” Spend some time pondering this question today.