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thanks and Psalm 100


 

November is the month that we celebrate the holiday known as Thanksgiving.  It is also a time to choose to give thanks.  It is a choice to be thankful, to have a heart of gratitude and to know how blessed you are.


This weekend I read a passage that we know pretty well.  These voices are almost shouting what being thankful looks like and what need.


Psalms 100 is a powerful reminder of how God looks at giving thanks and how we should follow the example that King David set.  Verse after verse gives us a place to begin and even time to spend being thankful for what God has done and will do in the days ahead.


Psalms 100  NLT

Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth! 2  Worship the Lord with gladness.  Come before him, singing with joy. 3  Acknowledge that the Lord is God!  He made us, and we are his.  We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.  4  Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name. 5  For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.


Let me ramble a bit but know that these are tied to thanksgiving.


Joy is an outcome of being thankful.


Worship brings joy and accompanies being thankful.


We acknowledge God through worship.


The people who belong to God, the people He created, we are impacted by being thankful.


Enter with thanksgiving.  Enter His presence with being thankful.


That is where we will find joy and life and so much more.


That last verse is the icing on the cake or the cherry on top.  Literally God is good, and this is the season that reminds us, or can remind us, of the character of our God.  His love is unending.  His faithfulness will be proven over and over.  God is good, and this season once again will be proven.


Colossians 3:15-16  NLT  

And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.  Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

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