Sometimes It's Hard to Feel Thankful

Sometimes It's Hard to Feel Thankful

Sometimes it's hard to feel thankful especially when we know injustice towards good has taken the lives of just people or when injustice has caused grief where happiness was flourishing,  but as Christians we know to fail to praise God would be like holding up a surrendering flag to the enemy.  I think of the actions of Job who did not surrender in his heart to Satan's temptation of  bitterness towards God.

Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Job had great loss, the death of his children in tragedy  and abandonment of his wife through the  great health problems that had befallen him.   He had no one, even his friends judged him wrongly and were not true friends, but yet Job blessed the Lord.  He did not surrender to bitterness towards God, but rather continued to believe in the goodness of God.  His faith was tried and He remained faithful.

God blessed Job after the worst tragedy of his life had become the past  and Job learned to live again.  God blessed Job more at the later part of His life than He had before tragedy hit his life.  God gave him another wife, more children and more riches.  He continued to trust God and to dream again after losing all His dreams.

Job is one of the greatest examples of praise to the Lord in scriptures... even through great suffering  He blessed the name of the Lord and did not curse the Lord God.  God was moved to bless Job more at the ending of his life than His beginning.

Short Devotional:
Susan Nikitenko

Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

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Thanksgiving

THANKSGIVING:

A day of thanks unto God for the great bounty of not just the harvest,

But for the bounty of love that God has allowed us to know and enjoy.

It has been set aside to honor Him, remember Him and praise Him.

A day of feasting and celebration of family and

to acknowledge Gods graciousness to us. 

We as a nation have not deserved the great blessings

bestowed by God Almighty.  His great creation itself rejoices and shouts

of His goodness.  For this blessing alone we should be thankful.

His provision, for us as a nation, has been

astounding in comparison to other nations.  Let us return to Him and rejoice

with thanksgiving to our great God, who will never leave His child comfortless.

Let us be thankful for the provision of daily need whether

physical emotional or spiritual.  The provision of His grace that enables us

to continue on each day.

Have not the trees produced their crop and the fields their corn?

While others live in a barren waste and beg their bread?

 Still many dare to shake their fist at God while God

has been overly patient with this country.

Have not the spoiled of our country cried

the loudest in their complaints and bit the hands that fed them?

Let our thanksgiving be of a true heart,  Living a life that exemplifies

our gratefulness by our obedience to God.

A nation that forgets God and forsakes His commandments

will not go unpunished.

Lord help us to love you more and truly realize how good you are. 

Help us to see how wonderfully blessed we are in this country.

Your blessings are numberless.

Let us fear what we allow to pass through our lips and

cause them to be filled with praise and thanksgiving. 

Oh Lord I pray, that this country doesn't have to

suffer tremendous loss in order to see how good we really had it.

The old saying stands true,  You really don't know what you have

until it's gone.  Once it's gone we'll realize we should have been grateful.

Let us be grateful.

Let our hearts be filled with  true thankfulness.

Let us rejoice in God's  immeasurable blessings.

Gods provision and His grace upon  this beautiful country,

 America,  our home.

Thank You, God.

Thank You.

Susan Y Nikitenko  11-14-11 ©

2 Corinthians  9:11 

Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.