Hi y’all, Happy Thanksgiving Week! By the time this blog post goes live we’ll be elbow deep in preparation for our family feast on Thanksgiving day. We hope you all have a fantastic holiday week and enjoy this post.
Thanksgiving is a lifestyle, not a day.
That is the motto our dad lives by. Sure it’s good we set aside a day to be thankful for all we have, but is that the only day you ever stop to be thankful? Is that the only time we reflect on all we have? If so…maybe it’s time to rethink that aspect of life.
There are countless times in the Bible where it says to rejoice, rejoice always, and praise the Lord, but do we do it? Are we a people of praise? Do we look around every day and find something to thank God for, even if it’s as small as making it safely to work? Do you praise Him in the big and little things? Do you thank Him in private as well as in public? Do you count your blessings and rejoice in them?
The Bible says we are to be a people of praise, but we are one of the most selfish and self-centered generations to walk the earth, we do believe, especially those of us born after about 1990. We worry about our happiness, our image, and our needs, but do we ever thank God for what we have instead of complaining about what we don’t have?
We like how our dad says, “God wants to hear your needs, but He also wants to hear your praise.” Our God loves to hear from His children, but isn’t it funny how we usually only come to Him with our problems. When things go well for us we might offer a “thank you, Jesus,” but that’s as far as we go. What if we were to pour as much of ourselves into praise and thankfulness as we do our wants and needs? What if instead of being thankful one day a year we strove to be as thankful as we are on Thanksgiving every day?
That is our challenge to you and to ourselves, to be thankful every day instead of just every now and then. Will you strive with us to be thankful every day and to rejoice in the Lord, especially when it’s hard?
“But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.”
~Philippians 5:11
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