It doesn't take long on social media for you to catch one of the many memes describing the challenges of 2020. One of my favorites accompanies this post, “If 2020 were a potluck.”
This has definitely been a year to remember, a particular mix of familiar (tropical storms) and unfamiliar (COVID) trials complicating the regular issues everyone must work through. But it's also a year in which our Lord has revealed Himself as He's led His people through each and every turn. And for that I am grateful, as should you be.
For some, giving thanks in the midst of the trial means little more than a wishful hope that God's blessing might return. But these persons err by equating His blessing with life running smoothly to their satisfaction.
Others use the words of thanksgiving, but only the words. They fail to notice God's handiwork throughout their situation.
But for the disciple of Jesus Christ, thanksgiving is the recognition that God's grace abounds and that all we have and all we are belong to Him. From this perspective 2020 is just another season through which we faithfully follow Him that he may reveal Himself through us.
May you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, full of genuine praise for the Lord who loves us, who leads us, and, most of all, who gave His life that we might live. As David prayed, "I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds."
Bro. Jim