Although we should be giving thanks every day, today........Thanksgiving..........is our day we have set aside to give thanks. Among all the eating, celebrating and football, we should take a moment to remember all of our blessings, and simply give thanks. We should give thanks to God, for all good things come from God.
We have created a world that is too obsessed with what we don't have. Our joy is often what we have in the cart and our hope is for what we have placed in our wish list. We are always looking for the next item to make us happy and we often end up, restless, anxious and unhappy.
We need to be happy for what we have for there are so many who have so little. There are so many who want to eat, but have no food. So many who want for home but live in a tin box.
As we become thankful for what we have, we need to then turn to be thankful for our God. For he so loves us. When we place first.............His concerns, He then is faithful to provide for our needs. God asks that His work sometime would come through us. If someone is hungry, can we not provide to feed them. He is not asking us to feed the whole world, but maybe just one, who is hungry. He is only asking us to share just a portion what He has provided to us.
Then we can truly give thanks to God who gives so much to us. Please take a moment today to give thanks to God.
Our Father, we thank you for the wonderful things you have given us, the wonderful people you have placed in our lives, the love you show us through these friends and family that you have given us, and the grace and mercy through Jesus, you offer freely to us. May we recognize and thank you for the good, for you are a good and loving God. Amen
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