Now Thank We All Our God

Thanksgiving is one of my very favorite times of the year. We have cemented traditions for Thanksgiving in my family and I can never wait for the time I get to spend with my extended family. So, obviously that is something I am thankful for. But what is true thankfulness? What does that mean? When you're looking on the outside it's pretty simple: you are given something, you enjoy someone or something and you're thankful for it. But for us as Christians, Thanksgiving is SO MUCH MORE! It goes deeper then thanking our friends and family members for things. We have a God who has given us ALL things. We can't possibly thank Him enough! Before He even created the world God knew that He would have to give up His Son's life for us. How can we possibly thank Him for that except with our lives? We need to thank God for the blessings He pours on us each and everyday. Because weather you notice it or not, He has blessed you today. Did you wake up? Did you see when you woke up? Do you have a bed to sleep in? We don't think about those little things enough and that's when we get discontented. Christ has given us every one of those things. We praise Him in our worship and in our studying of His Word to thank and praise Him for all He has done. But that still couldn't be enough for what He did. Thankfully, He took care of that. By Jesus' death on the cross, there is nothing for us to do but to proclaim Him as our Savior and live to only honor and praise Him. How easy is that?! I love going to Church, I love helping my friends who are in need. I don't do it all the time because sin is the true me. But when I have the Spirit of Christ living in my heart, those things feel wonderful to do and THAT"S how we give thanks to God.

Hymn Now Thank We All Our God by Martin Rinkhart
1 Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in whom His world rejoices;
who from our mothers' arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.

3 All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given,
the Son and Spirit blest,
who reign in highest heaven
the one eternal God,
whom heaven and earth adore;
for thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.