...But God

Psalms 138: 1-2

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Host
Chad McBeam
Business Leader, Foster Advocate and Fighter of Human Trafficking, Chad enjoys hosting this podcast channel as a way to spread and highlight the great examples of those who live out their faith daily. He can also be seen on occasion on your TV or Film Screen or be heard narrating one of your books as his love of acting has stuck with him since his childhood.
Writer
Aaron Marcarelli
After getting his under-graduate degree from Cal State University San Bernardino where he played college baseball and received all American honors. he was a graduate assistant baseball coach at both Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, Tennessee, and at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.  He received his master’s degree in Teaching from Whitworth, with plans to someday be a head baseball coach at a university.  However, God had other plans.  Aaron started teaching English and History and coaching baseball and other sports at the high school level and found out how much he loves high school kids, and he has been doing that for the past 27 years.     Personally, heI has been married to his wife Sharon for 32 years, they have one daughter, Amanda Parrish, who has been married to Austin Parrish for 2 years. Aaron also has two grandsons Travis age 2 ½ and Aden who is 13 months and are blessed to have another on the way due in May. Aaron loves reading, golfing, and spending time with his wife and grandkids.
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Linda Cowen
Linda Cowen of San Antonio Christian School is our gracious and talented art designer for the But God, weekday morning devotional series.

What is ...But God?

A weekday morning devotional series written by Aaron Marcarelli and hosted by Chad McBeam

“I will give You thanks with all my heart; I will sing Your praises before the gods. I will bow down toward Your holy temple And give thanks to Your name for Your mercy and Your truth; For You have made Your word great according to all Your name.”
Psalms 138:1-2 NASB2020

Whereas the word Thanks or thankful is only used 130 times the word praise is used a little more. It is used a little over 6800 times. What can we learn from that?
Praise is a head thing. We can go through the motions of praise. It’s an outward expression. Thanksgiving and Thankfulness are inward expressions from the heart. God knows if we are faking our praise and if it is not true gratitude and thanksgiving from the heart. He said it pretty clearly in Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’”
True thanksgiving comes from the transformation of the heart through the power of The Holy Spirit.
The only way that happens is if we give our lives wholeheartedly and without reservation to Christ. Believe that He seeks to save the lost. That He came to earth to die on the cross for the sins of he world, then, now and forever. That He then rose again to prove that death had no dominion over Him, thus giving us eternal forgiveness and eternal life with Him.
If we truly acknowledge and accept that truth, and give our lives to Him, then our hearts will be renewed and our praise will truly be filled with thanksgiving through the power of His Holy Spirit.
Therefore I will praise Him with a grateful and thankful heart. For He, the creator of the heavens and the earth gave us Jesus Christ His Son! That is the greatest gift which I and we should give the most praise and be the most thankful for.
Lord, I am thank you for the greatest gift you have ever given, that is Jesus Christ my Lord. I know that sometimes my praise has has not always been genuine. Help me to rely on your Holy Spirit so that my praise may be true and pure and thankful of the amazing gift of the forgiveness of my sins for all eternity. I pray all these things in Jesus Name Amen…