Morning by Morning, November 23 - “In Everything Give Thanks” Good morning, Lord Jesus. I lift up my heart and listen up for Your voice to go where You lead in my morning prayer and every moment of my day (John 10:3). ... “In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NASB). The will of God for me is not “everything” I go through. The will of God for me is that I “give thanks” in everything I go through. Not everything that happens in this broken and fallen world is the will of God. Evil is never the will of God, but evil happens in this world. Sin is never the will of God, but sin happens in this world. So even though there is evil, even though there is sin, even though there are so many things that I will go through to endure and overcome on my journey through this world in this little sliver of time that I have, You give me the power of Your grace to go through it all with thanksgiving in my heart. Not thanksgiving for the evil and the sin, not thanksgiving for the things that break Your heart and mine, but thanksgiving that You are with me, that You are for me, that You will even cause all these things to “work together for good” (Romans 8:28) and that “in all these things” I am “more than a conqueror through Him who loved (me)” and that none of these things “will be able to separate (me) from the love of God in Christ Jesus (my) Lord” (Romans 8:37-39). That’s what I’m thankful for. That’s what fills my heart with thanksgiving in all things. That’s how I can live into the invitation of Your Word to “Rejoice in the Lord always,” to “be anxious for nothing,” because “the Lord is at hand,” filling me with “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,” which “will guard (my) heart and (my) mind in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:4-7). That’s why Thanksgiving is more than a holiday. It’s even more than a holy day. Thanksgiving is an attitude of the heart, a perspective of life, that I can choose to embrace by Your grace every day. And so I do. Lord, I thank You. “In everything (I) give thanks.” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be filled with thanksgiving to God in everything in all you go through and endure and overcome by the power of the grace of God, in Jesus' name. Happy Thanksgiving! God bless you!
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