"It is the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgement of benefits or favors, especially to God."
It seems that as the years go by we forget the importance of taking a moment and thinking about our life, about our daily life. Have you thought about giving thanks for just waking up in the morning? How about because you are able to walk, or you can hear and speak? Maybe you can't get out of bed, but you woke up, right? Who do you think woke you up this morning? Maybe you can't hear or speak, but you can walk and you can do other things, correct?
See sometimes we are so wrapped up in ourselves, in our issues, our problems, our mess, our illness that we take for granted the small things that you should give thanks to God for every single day. You know it is very sad that there are truly people that wait until Thanksgiving Day to give thanks! What happened the rest of the year? Did the sun not rise? Did the moon not come out? The definition of thanksgiving is grateful acknowledgement of benefits or favors, especially to God. So are we not receiving benefits? Are we not receiving rain when we need it? See it says "acknowledgement for benefits or favor. You and I have received many benefits.
If you still feel you don't have anything to give thanks to God, then I have one more for you. This is the most important one, undeniable -
First let me explain a little something. When God created the world he spoke the Word and it would come into existence Genesis 1:3-25, but when he made man he said "let us create him in Our Image." Genesis 1:26a "Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: ...." Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." In Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." 1 Peter 5:8 says "Be sober (well balanced and self-disciplined) be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion (fiercely hungry) seeking someone to to devour." John 10:10 "The thief only comes to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and life abundantly."Adam and Eve had a perfect relationship with God until it was broken by giving in to temptation and once failing into that temptation and sinning that relationship with God was broken. However, God was not going to leave us lost without a relationship with him and condemned to eternal death, suffering in hell and in the lake of fire for all eternity. No! Hell and the lake of fire was created for the devil, demons and the fallen angels. It was NEVER created for us. However, the devil has made it his mission to break, damage, kill, destroy everything that belongs to God.
If God wouldn't have breathed life into you, you wouldn't be alive today and if He doesn't continue what will happen, you die! I think that is a good reason to be thankful every single day. Yet, we take one day of the year to sit down with our family many times not even give thanks to God, but gather to eat a good meal. Living now in the 21st century that is probably the only day and Christmas in which the family (I think) is all together and they sit at the table together. Thank God that your children are with you!
So as you read this blog and meditate on it, I ask you.....Do you have anything to be thankful to God?
I have so much to be thankful to God. The first and most important is for His forgiveness of my sins and for my salvation. I thank Him for the healing of my hearing in my right ear. I thank God for watching over me just recently when I lost control of the car. I thank God for my parents and family. I thank God because I was born into a very united, caring, loving and supportive family. I have so much more to give thanks, how about you!
God bless!
