Thanksgiving is an awesome day.  Typically the day consists of spending quality time with loved ones and eating food prepared with love.  Not to mention football (!!), but not everybody is into that.  Memories are constructed and hearts are softened this time of year.  While reading Psalms 9, you cannot hold a smile back hearing David lay out and further explain God’s faithfulness to us.  As Christians, what should we ultimately be thankful for?  Jesus’s death and resurrection on the cross that literally tore down the barrier between us and God, thus allowing us to have a relationship with our creator.  It is really easy to say how we are thankful for everything that is a result of Christ’s blessing on our lives.  Looking at gifts and consistently forgetting where they came from, and potentially putting them above the giver.  Let’s get this straight: Jesus saved us from ourselves while being physically, mentally and emotionally tortured by the very people he was saving.  He came from a perfect paradise to the corrupt earth all to save a people that he knew would never be able to live perfectly.  He knowingly bought a piece of junk, because he loves the piece of junk more than any of us can comprehend.  He loves us so much that he doesn’t let us just stay where we are, but promises to renew us inwardly day by day and forgive us when we repent and accept his ultimate gift of grace to us.  God had every reason to forsake us and let us self-destruct, but instead he made a way possible that all our needs could be met.  Rectifying our hearts, minds, bodies, and ultimately our souls.  Promising that his faithfulness would endure forever even amidst our faithlessness.  All he wants is our hearts, and our desires.  So as we sit with our families enjoying small puzzle pieces of the ultimate picture, let us thank the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for all things, but most importantly salvation.  If you have accepted Jesus’s gift on the cross and committed your life to him, you’ve got every reason to be thankful this year and every year in the future.  If you haven’t, he wants you to more than anything.  He paid a price for you, and conquered death all so he could talk to you and be with you!  Ask him into your heart, and repent from the sin that separates us from him and as he says, you are forgiven.  It is finished.

God Bless everyone.