As I write this I admit I wonder why should I or anyone have to write about being thankful on Thanksgiving. Any living breathing human being should be able quickly to think of numerous reasons to be thankful to God.
What about just living, being created? Having a safe place to live and food to eat. Health? Provision for daily life? Family? Friends?
How about Jesus? Being thankful for all he has done. And the Holy Spirit?
Why not just read Psalm 100 and take it to heart. Every word.
As the psalm says, know that the Lord is God. It is he who has made us and we are his. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to the Lord. Praise his name.
And the psalm goes on to say that the Lord is good. His steadfastness endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.
That’s enough, isn’t it?
Or maybe you need to know that Jesus is holding this entire creation together. Without him, it would just come apart, disintegrate, fly apart. I know most don’t focus on that scripture, but it is there, over in Colossians 1:17. Maybe we should thank him for that. Or maybe for the fact that through him all things were made and without him nothing was made that has been made.
Maybe we should thank Father God for sending his son down here to create a way for us to him. He didn’t have to do that. Even when Jesus came, he didn’t have to go through it, the crucifixion, the taking upon himself of all our iniquities, all our sicknesses and diseases and pain, and overcoming all that and so much more – like death and the curses of the law and shame and regret.
I’m sure you can think of many more reasons to be thankful. I just wanted to list a few possibilities.
God bless you all this Thanksgiving. Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is the source of all real joy and hope. He is your future. Right now he has been in heaven at the right hand of God while accommodations have been being prepared for us. He in fact said he was going there to prepare a place for us. And he is coming so very soon to get us and take us with him.
One last thing. Continue to ask the Father to draw all those you know who don’t know the Lord to a saving knowledge of Jesus and thank him for that. Thank him.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving. To be truthful, a believer in the Lord Jesus doesn’t need one specific Thanksgiving Day. Every day is Thanksgiving Day. Every day is a day of praise and thanksgiving to Jesus and the Father. Everyday.
God bless you all.
November 2022
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