Thankful Every Day

The Thanksgiving holiday has come and gone. But every day should be a day of thanks. God has done so much for us all! He is our all-loving, all-powerful, ever-faithful heavenly Father who delights in our praise. And when we are thankful, our heart is also glad.

Today we're not required to make sacrifices of thanksgiving as they were in the old testament, but the giving of thanks continues.  God wants us to be thankful and to sing praise unto Him, and it pleases Him when we do!

Psalm 95:1-3: O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Psalm 100: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Psalm 147:7:  Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God.

Some days, we may not feel like being thankful, but there is always something to be thankful for: God will never leave us nor forsake us; if we've "made our bed in hell," He is still there; if we've messed up, His mercy endures forever; when we look to Him, we know that His truth endures to all generations. He will always love us. We're the apple of His eye, His precious children.

Psalm 69:30-32: I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

Let your heart live by seeking God; praise Him and be glad! What a simple way to turn a day around when needed or to add joy and rejoicing when things are going well.

The greatest thing we have to be thankful for is explained in Romans 5.

Romans 5:8-11: But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Praise God that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from our sin and reconcile us to Him.
Now we can walk as sons and daughters of God and enjoy a close personal relationship with Him.

2 Corinthians 9:8,11:  And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work....

Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

God is making all grace abound toward us! Our souls, our lives our enriched day by day. We can keep looking to God and praising Him, through thick and thin, for He is ever faithful and loves us!
Thanksgiving Day or any day, all thanks and praise and glory go to God, our loving heavenly Father!