Thanksgiving Month

November - the month of Thanksgiving. Someone on facebook brought up the suggestion that everyday we should post why we are thankful until Thanksgiving Day itself. But why stop there? The truth of the matter is, we should give thanks every day. I was humbled today when I realized that even though I believe in God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) I don't thank Him near enough - and yet it does not stop Him from loving me supremely, without reservation, without condemnation. That realization caused me to stop right in the middle of my workday to just thank Him for:
Being alive
For Him give me life
For loving me (and all humanity) so much that He would empty Himself, leave the throne of heaven and place Himself in the womb of a virgin, become flesh, grow up sinless, be sinless as an adult, fight Satan and evil to a degree unfathomable by an stretch of human imagination - and then die while enduring the tempations of Satan.
For being totally sinless yet becoming sin itself - carrying my sins on the cross of Calvary, on Golgotha, the Place of the Skull - and enduring the shame and horror of it all. But because He was sinless, He destroyed death and the grave and (if we're willing) to destroy the hold that sin has over each of us in our lives - and grant us eternal life.
For the RESURRECTION - without the resurrection, we humans have no hope. But there was a resurrection and so we do have hope: the greatest hope that we could possibly have, that no matter how bad things get in our lives we have hope and faith in GOD.

I have so much more to be thankful for - but that's for later.

"In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever - 'til my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river."