We have a great to be thankful for in this nation and certainly if there is anything more important than being thankful for family and the church, I can’t think of it.

The Bible says, “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

It is God’s will for you and I to give Him thanks both in everything (1 Thessalonians 5:18) and for everything (Ephesians 5:20). Here is why…we thank God in everything because we know that He will never leave us nor forsake us and that in the time of trouble He is a very present help.

We can thank God for everything because ultimately He allows nothing into our lives without it being filtered through His love for us…and therefore it is designed to eventually make us better and more like Jesus. "For we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord, to them who are the called according to His purpose," Romans 8:28.