O give thanks…

I really don’t feel like giving thanks.

I have been without a call for over 4 months (that’s 120+ days). Now my wife is working and coming home bone tired, not that the work she did before did not wear her out, but it was here and we could help (and every now and then we did). I really have no reason to give thanks. My life seems to be in shambles, I am not the one providing for my family and it seems like everything is coming apart at the seems.

On top of this I have friends on Twitter  who are in the same boat as I am, the club is huge it seems of pastors out of work, and not able to find a congregation. So I watch and walk with them as they share the pains of life as they know it. We are all struggling. And in this we are to give thanks!?!?!?!?!

YES!!! Give thanks to the Lord for HE is Good! God never said your life would be easy, that it would be a walk in the park, but he did promise to be there. Just like in Psalm 107:23-30:

²³ Some went down to the sea in ships,
doing business on the mighty waters;
²⁴ they saw the deeds of the Lord,
his wondrous works in the deep.
²⁵ For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,
which lifted up the waves of the sea.
²⁶ They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths;
their courage melted away in their calamity;
²⁷ they reeled and staggered like drunkards,
and were at their wits’ end.
²⁸ Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out from their distress;
²⁹ he made the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
³⁰ Then they were glad because they had quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.

You see they went to the sea and a calamity arose. Actually if you read this version of the Psalm closely, it was God that raised the stormy wind and caused the storm to rise upon them! But they called out and God saved them and brought them to their desired haven! God never said it would be a walk in the park, sometimes it is more like an all out run through a dark forest with someone chasing you and the sounds of dogs gaining on your heels… But through it all God is with us. He is walking or running with us, and He will see us through.

So yes give thanks to the Lord, even when you don’t feel like it, because He has done great things for you, He is doing great things for you (even if you can’t see them, and He will do great things for you! He loves you, and gave His son for you. So give Him thanks!