1 Chronicles 16:34 – “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.”
Mark 12:29-31 – “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”
Happy Thanksgiving to all! My forever first reason to be thankful is that God is good and He loves us! I’m so thankful that He loves me so much that every day He makes me better at letting His love flow to others. Receiving love and giving love is the best thing in life.
Family and Friends, I hope you all know how deeply I love you all. It’s hard not to love when being loved so greatly by Him. Making it harder not to love is having all of you in my life. Will Rogers, the great American humorist of the past, is quoted as saying “I never met a man I didn’t like.” As a child I would think about that. I could think of people, even as a child, who didn’t seem “like” worthy. I was probably one of them! However, Jesus changed all that. I can now love everyone. Not everything we all do is so loveable, but we cannot concentrate on the negative but the positive, and people can become very likeable, even lovable. It is especially possible to do knowing that we are commanded to love. Family and Friends, we are all very loveable in some ways, and in some ways not so loveable. Let us love everybody for their good qualities in spite of their bad! Jesus does. Let’s follow His example.
I’m thankful to and for God! And I’m thankful for all of you! Even you rascals, of whom I am one!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.