While many associate Thanksgiving Day with family, stretchy pants, football and shopping, let it propel us toward a heart of gratitude. It is a time to consider God’s goodness, grace, and provision for us. He is the Author of encouragement, help, and hope. I like to think of Thanksgiving as trust-giving and thanks-living.
Thanksgiving should not be a one-day event, but a life committed to thanks-living each day. It is an act of trust-giving to be thankful even in the hard places of life. And when things go well it is easy to forget to pause and say thank you to the Giver of those good things. Paul exhorts us to give thanks in all circumstances. He said the Bible points us in the right direction. “Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Rom 15:4).
Thanksgiving is a lifestyle, not a day. Can we commit to willing everything that God wills and cultivating a grateful heart that finds the goodness of God in all things even the hard things?
May you be blessed daily with a heart ready to praise God for all things in sincere trust-giving and thanks-living.
