Psalm 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
You’ve got to hand it to the songwriters of Psalms: they knew what it would take to bring their people back into favor with God.
The Psalmist here begins and ends this chapter with the exhortation to the children of Israel that they needed to praise and give thanks to their God.
If they’d maintained the attitude of gratitude, they would’ve never started the slow slide away from Him.
The litany of sinful behavior in chapter 106 begins with their forgetting the mercies (verse 7) and works of God (verse 13); and they forgot that He was their Saviour (verse 21). The rest of the chapter chronicles their increasingly wicked acts against God.
I truly believe that a thankful heart keeps us away from sin. Gratitude is a deterrent to a myriad of sinful behavior and it protects our mind from patterns that are self-destructive.
Whenever you find yourself allowing thoughts that are sinful, unkind, wicked, frightening, worrisome, etc., you need to STOP THOSE THOUGHTS.
Find something that you can genuinely praise and thank God for. Maybe we should be thankful that nobody else can read our minds!
Begin to undo years of stinkin’ thinkin’ by filling your heart and mind with gratitude to your God. It will transform you from the inside out.
Obtaining Mercy 