Psalm 100:4 Thankfulness
“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name” (NKJV).
It’s ten days before Thanksgiving, and I thought it was time to write about thankfulness. But then I thought that thankfulness is something we should have all year. I’m glad that our nation has chosen a time to publicly thank God for His provision, and I celebrate it, but I feel ashamed that I waited until now to write about thankfulness.
First of all, we owe our greatest thanks to God Almighty for His love that caused Him to create the universe. God is due our thanks for everything we have in our daily lives, and we owe our greatest thanks to Him for providing eternal life for us in heaven with Him.
Personally, I am very thankful to God for my wife, our three sons, our three daughters-in-law, our three granddaughters, our four grandsons, our one grandson-in-law, and our one grand fiancé. My life is full and quite blessed because of these beautiful gifts from God. Family, the great invention of God, is the glue that holds communities and nations together. When we can live together, work together, worship together, and love together, with God at the center of the family, the world is blessed.
Since I’m being personal in this message, I will state my thankfulness for my church, Faith Community Church, East, in Tucson, Arizona. We were welcomed within a minute of entering the church the first time, and the welcome was confirmed by many people before the service even started. It felt like home, and it has been so for many years. Friendships continue to grow as more people join the church. God is praised and worshipped each time people gather there. The Word of the Lord is preached and opportunity to reach out to the community is provided. It’s a good place to grow closer to our Lord and to learn how to be His light in the world.
I hope that you are blessed as I am with a wonderful family and a blessed church. If you are, thank God for them today. If you don’t have one of them, family or church, or even if you don’t have either, give thanks to the Lord and ask Him to lead you to both.
Praise and thanks to our Great God!
P.S. The church pictured is not Faith Community Church, East, but a Pennsylvania church.