How Full of Thanksgiving is Your Life?

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Thanksgiving is approaching fast. Especially at this time of year, we pause to think about our lives. We consider all that we have to be thankful for. It’s a good time to examine our lives and consider the choices we make that bring blessings and also those that are harmful and some even sinful.

Let’s use an illustration to examine our lives. Think of a water glass as representing your life. The “water” that fills the “glass” is that which fills your life. Now think about the “water.” Is it clean, fresh water? Or is it muddy water? We all make choices about the kind of “water” that fills our “glass.”

Acceptance or rejection

Approval or condemnation

Blessings or misfortunes

Boldness or timidity

Cheer or misery

Comfort or torment

Consolation or affliction

Contentment or anguish

Devotion or disregard

Discretion or indiscretion

Enthusiasm or indifference

Faithfulness or apostasy

Fellowship or enmity

Fidelity or disloyalty

Friendship or estrangement

Knowledge or ignorance

Love or heartache

Gentleness or hardness

Godliness or godlessness

Good fortune or calamity

Goodness or corruption

Graciousness or conditionality

Health or sickness

Holiness or wickedness

Honor or dishonor

Hope or despair

Humility or pride

Joys or troubles

Meekness or arrogance

Obedience or sin

Orthodoxy or heresy

Passion or apathy

Peace or conflict

Piety or impiety

Prosperity or poverty

Purity or impurity

Regard or neglect

Relief or trauma

Respectfulness or disrespect

Reverence or irreverence

Right or wrong

Righteousness or blasphemy

Sincerity or insincerity

Successes or failures

Tenderness or roughness

Thoughtfulness or thoughtlessness

Truth or lies

Wisdom or stupidity

Worship or neglect

A Choice

You get the idea. The question is not whether your “glass” (your life) is half empty or half full. The real question is, what fills your glass?

We all choose what fills our glass.

Watch this short video and be inspired by knowing that because you are in Christ your glass is always half filled with exactly what you need. In Christ, we have everything we need. So we should always give thanks for our “glass” and praise our God. We should always let His fullness in our “glass” direct that which fills the rest.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. Ps 69:30

Fifty three years ago, on November 22nd — only six days before Thanksgiving that year, America’s President was slenced by an assasin’s bullet. Read what he would have said, if the sin of murder had not claimed his life.

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Do not be anxious about anything. (Phil 4:6)

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must rightly remember who is in control. Our God is sovereign over all things, including COVID-19. As Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) said, “The sovereignty of God is a soft pillow on which weary people lay their heads.”

Remember also God’s gracious promise, and that it is true and He is faithful to keep it: Hebrews 13:5 …”I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” The next verse remind us of the power that comes in trusting God and how we can live: Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man [or COVID-19] shall do to me.

God loves us, and in Christ we find confidence and calm in times of uncertainty and trouble. When we trust in God, fear is replaced with faith, stress is replaced with strength, anxiety is gone and hope abounds, problems become opportunities, and we are able to receive the blessings God has for us in the midst of difficult circumstances. Turn to Jesus. He will lead you to the still waters and give rest for your troubled soul.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast…Hebrews 6:19

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