What are you thankful for? Do you make thanksgiving part of your day-to-day or like many, do you relegate this to holidays or special occasions?
It may sound ridiculous to hear that but sadly it's true because some today don't have an attitude of gratitude...they have the opposite of that.
Thankfulness can be found despite the circumstances of a given day or moment.
Thankfulness can be found with each new day because each day provides a fresh new start.
Thankfulness can be found in the beating of your heart and with every breath.
Thankfulness can be found in the rising and setting of the sun as each day is a gift to live out.
Thankfulness can be found in salvation, love and a new life found in the Savior.
Thankfulness is a decision... a mindset... an attitude...a choice.
You can find so many things to be thankful for if you just pause for a moment and look around you...what do you see? You should see a multitude of things to be thankful about.
Maybe you need to periodically take time to pause for a few minutes and write down what you're thankful for instead of what you're ungrateful for?
Don't compartmentalize your thanksgiving. Be thankful daily. Thank others daily. Thank God for the life you've been given and for the people He's blessed and surrounded you with.
Be thankful for the "big" and "small" things in your life because at the end of the day they are all truly big things. Your life, your attitude and your outlook will be far better if you are thankful and appreciate how blessed you truly are!
Here are 8 passages (of the many in God's Word) to help you meditate on regarding thankfulness.
Take time to read, study and pray about these and then go find more in The Word for yourself.
Psalm 95:2-3
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
1 Corinthians 1:4-5
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—
2 Corinthians 9:11-12
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
1 Chronicles 16:34
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Psalm 7:17
I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
Psalm 100:4
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
Psalm 106:1
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
1 Thessalonians 5:18
18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Be thankful because God is good and He loves you beyond measure.
Thankfulness is really a thing...just make it your thing!
Thankfully,
Randolph Koch