{"id":3164,"date":"2019-05-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2019-05-19T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T01:47:40","slug":"now-thank-we-all-our-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/now-thank-we-all-our-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Thank We All Our God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"Now Thank We All Our God 5\/25\/19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/p3j4x-b1c452?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/p3j4x-b1c452?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>There are certain hymns that we sing at church that I particularly enjoy<\/u>. <u>One of them is \u201cNow Thank We All Our God<\/u>\u201d.<\/strong> I love the melody and the words are so uplifting, expressing what I feel in my heart. Knowing the history of how this hymn came to be, is even more inspiring. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>&#8220;Now Thank We All Our God\u201d<\/em><\/strong> was written during the Thirty Years War in Germany, in the early 1600s. Its author was Martin Rinkart, a Lutheran pastor in the town of Eilenburg in Saxony. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Eilenburg was a walled city, so it became a haven for refugees seeking safety from the fighting, much like what is happening with refugees today. The city soon became too crowded and food was in short supply. Then a famine hit along with a terrible plague. Eilenburg became a giant morgue. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>In one year alone, Pastor Rinkart conducted funerals for 4,500 people, including his own wife<\/u>. <\/strong><u>The war dragged on and the suffering continued. Yet through it all, he never lost courage or his faith. Even during the darkest days of Eilenburg&#8217;s agony, he was able to write this hymn:<\/u> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>Now thank we all our God, <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>with hearts and hands and voices, <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>Who wondrous things hath done, <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>In whom the world rejoices <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>&#8230;[So] keep us in His grace, <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>and guide us when perplexed, <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>and free us from all ills, <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>in this world and the next. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>Even when he was waist deep in sadness and destruction, Pastor Rinkart was able to lift his sights to a higher level. He kept his mind on God&#8217;s love when the world all around him was filled with hate. <br \/><\/em><br \/><u>Can we not do the same<\/u> &#8211; <u>we whose lives are almost trouble-free, compared with the man who wrote that hymn<\/u>?  <em><u>A God Tap<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Don\u2019t just wait until <em>\u201cNow Thank We All Our God\u201d<\/em> is sung again at your church. You know the words and the melody. Sing it while you are riding in your car!! Sing it while you are taking a shower tomorrow morning!! Now you know the rest of the story!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; There are certain hymns that we sing at church that I particularly enjoy. One of them is \u201cNow Thank We All Our God\u201d. I love the melody and the words are so uplifting, expressing what I feel in my heart. Knowing the history of how this hymn came to be, is even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558316719_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; &nbsp; There are certain hymns that we sing at church that I particularly enjoy. 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