We come to the time of year once again where we celebrate another Thanksgiving day. We gather with family and friends and eat turkey and dressing and pumpkin pie. We watch football and eat to much. It’s a great time of year. But we have thanksgiving day every single of our lives. God has blessed us with so much. We have life, health and strength in our bodies. We wake up each day in our right minds and we have food and clothes to wear. We are so blessed to live in the United States of America. There are so many people in this world who don’t have a place to live or clothes to wear. They don’t get regular meals to eat. Take a place like Haiti for example, there are so many people living there who don’t have the basic necessities of life yet they are thankful. When we look at where we are in life we have so much to be thankful for. God loves us so much that he provides everything we have need of. I am thankful for my wife and my children and the church he has allowed me to shepherd. In addition God has blessed me with a home to live in as well as provision. Thanksgiving is about the goodness of our God and all he continues to do for us.
What if God didn’t provide anything else for us? Would he still be worthy of thanks and praise? What if he did not meet our needs as he says in Philippians 4:19 “My God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory; by Christ Jesus.” We live in the greatest country in the world. A land of opportunity for all. There was a time in America where not all people were treated the same. But so much has changed where we all have equal chance to prosper. Yes we have much to thank and praise God for.
As Americans we enjoy the freedom to choose! Our choices can lead us down the road of bad decisions. It is those choices that get us in trouble and we expect God to get us out of that trouble. Thank God he never gives up on and he never leaves us. David said in Psalm 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” God loves us and cares about all that we go thought even if it’s of our own making. He may allow us to deal with that thing a lot longer than we desire but his love allows us to go through because he is building endurance in us. So have so much to be thankful for today and everyday.
Samuel King, Senior Pastor
Christlike Life Church, Laveen, AZ
