Thankfulness

I like the "Thirty Days of Thankfulness" I have been seeing. I won't post every day, but today I felt moved to do so. There are many times throughout the day that I am distracted...but today I shall stop and still my thoughts and praise and thank God for who He is.  I thank Him for being with me, not only when I call on His powerful and mighty name...but all the time. I am thankful that He is with me, guiding my steps and making a narrow path for me to walk.  I am thankful that not only is He with me in my joys and victories, but in my sorrows and failures.  I am thankful that God sent and sacrificed His Son here to build a cross shaped bridge across an infinite chasm that separated a painfully aware, wretched sinner like myself from the holy and perfect God who created and sustains everything including each breath I draw and every beat of my sin-weary heart. I am thankful to You, my Hope, my Redeemer, my Rock in shifting sands, my soul's first Love, my Conquerer of sin and death, my Righteousness, my Justice, my Healer, my Giver of Life, my Shepherd, my Lord, my Jesus. Thank You for the undeserved favor you have poured out on me - my relationship with You, the love you have grown and continue to deepen between Stacy and me, the children you have entrusted me with, clothes on our bodies, a roof over our heads, food to sustain our bodies and Your Word to sustain our souls.  I lack nothing...I have everything!!  

Truth from God's Word:

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you - 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ - Ephesians 5:20

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change - James 1:17

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever - Psalm 107:1

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him - Colossians 3:15-17

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving - Colossians 4:2

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him - Colossians 3:17

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations - Psalm 100:1-5