Give thanks with a grateful heart

Today’s song from Sing Praise is by Henry Smith. The words as printed are few, and I set them out here in a clearer form than in the book:

Give thanks with a grateful heart,
give thanks to the Holy one,
give thanks because he’s given Jesus Christ his Son.
And now let the weak say ‘I am strong’,
let the poor say ‘I am rich
because of what the Lord has done for us’.
Give thanks.

But as demonstrated by St Luke’s choir in this morning’s video, the first three lines are repeated, then the next three, then the whole repeated again.  There are essentially three reasons set out for being thankful: the gift of Jesus, God’s strength to the weak, and the spiritual richness of the humanly poor. These are signs of the Kingdom of God (the Church season that we are about to enter) as Jesus enters the world to make the last first.