Thanking the Lord after He has accomplished something great in your life is appropriate and good...and hindsight 20" class="scriptRef">is 20/20. This story in the Bible is an example of praising the Lord before His work is accomplished. It is, in essence, thanking the Lord with great faith that He will do a great work. Will you trust the Lord for what has not yet happened in your life? "Faith...the assurance of things hoped for..." (Hebrews 11)