Happy Thanksgiving 2022
Thanksgiving 2022 is here and that means the holiday season is in full swing!
People rushing about, schedules and to-do lists, Christmas rehearsals at church, a Thanksgiving meal to plan – it’s getting really busy.
Are you ready?
In all of our rushing around though, I wanted to take a few moments to reflect with gratitude where our “thanks” should truly lie – for the One Who created us and gave us His Son.
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart;
I will tell of all Your wonders.
I will rejoice and be jubilant in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. – Psalm 9:1-2, (NASB).1
For some who are away from their families this year, Thanksgiving 2022 can feel like a time of heartache.
If you’re currently going through a difficult time in your life, it can help to have some additional perspective.
God says to give thanks in everything. That doesn’t mean you need to give thanks FOR everything. You don’t need to give thanks FOR that bad day. Or FOR that bad relationship. Or being passed over at work. Financial hardship. Whatever it is – you are not to give thanks FOR the difficulties, but rather IN the difficulties. That is a very important distinction, and one I think we often miss. Giving thanks IN everything shows a heart of faith that God is bigger than the difficulties and that He can use them, if you approach Him with the right heart and spirit, for your good and His glory. – Tony Evans, Christian pastor.2
God never changes and neither does His love. It can help to remember the times He has walked with you through the struggles in your past.
Always, keep the faith, don’t give up and keep looking up for He is with you.
From our home to yours,
we’d like to wish you and your loved ones a very
Happy Thanksgiving 2022.
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1 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
2 Dr. Tony Evans quotation, “Give thanks IN, not FOR, is your secret to victory.” [online post]. n.d. Web. Accessed November 18, 2022. https://go.tonyevans.org/blog/giving-thanks-in-not-for-is-your-secret-to-victory
