Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is Thanksgiving and I wish you a wonderful day. Remember, it is not enough to be thankful. We must be thankful to God!

Here are a couple quotes from a John MacArthur sermon on being thankful. This message was based on I Thessalonians 5: 18 which says "in everything give thanks."

First regarding the unsaved man:

"In all of the litany of what defines unregenerate people, right in the middle is thanklessness. The unsaved man goes through life complaining, going through life bitter, angry. His life moves along a path of trying to manipulate the world around him to satisfy, as we said, the matrix of his own passions and whenever he can do that he has something to be happy about., whenever he can't, he is entrenched in bitterness and disappointment, sadness."

A brief section on the Christian's perspective:

"the believer operates in a completely different world, a completely different realm. We can rejoice always because of what we know to be true about God and His plan for us and we can be thankful for everything for the very same reasons. So the message tonight really builds on what we said this morning. Since we know that all things are being worked together by God for our eternal good, we can be thankful for everything. There is nothing outside the 'all things' that are working together for good because God is making that happen. There's nothing outside those all things. Because God is working all things for our good, there is cause for joy. In the end there is the same cause for gratitude."

I hope there is a challenge and a blessing in there for you today.

Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you,
Dennis