“Think about the events of your day today or maybe yesterday. Consider all the disruptions, disappointments, delays, delights, diversions, dangers, and more. No doubt you were thankful for some events and not so thankful for others. What may surprise you is that the Bible says you should have been thankful for all those events.
To be more accurate, Scripture says to be thankful IN everything, not FOR everything! That means to be thankful IN the midst of a circumstance, whether pleasant or unpleasant, not necessarily FOR the experience itself.
God doesn’t expect us to be thankful for an illness, a car accident, or losing a job, BUT it is ‘the will of God in Christ Jesus for you’ to be thankful in the midst of those circumstances.” (David Jerimiah) REJOICE ALWAYS, pray continually, give thanks in ALL CIRCUMSTANCES…” I Thessalonians 5: 18. We have been a most favored people. “We ought to be a most grateful people. We have been a most blessed people. We ought to be a most thankful people.” (This was the Thanksgiving Proclamation of Calvin Coolidge).
Are these same thoughts not ours today?
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
