Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a holiday with food, football, and family.  When I talk with others there are all different versions of how the day is celebrated.  It certainly is an opportunity to reflect and be thankful to God for all He has done.  When I was a child we would always sing Psalm 100 as a Thanksgiving praise.  I thought I would share this brief Psalm today and allow us all to reflect on it. 

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

    Worship the Lord with gladness;
    come before him with joyful songs.

Know that the Lord is God.
    It is he who made us, and we are his;
    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving
    and his courts with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
    his faithfulness continues through all generations.

I have found that throughout the years different parts of this Psalm have struck me.  I have reflected upon worshipping God with gladness.  I have contemplated what it means to know God.  I have thought about the fact that we are God’s we are the sheep of His pasture.  I have tried to be thankful for all of the things He has blessed me with and done in my life.  Recently I have been thinking about the fact that God is good and His love for me is an enduring love.  That means that He loves me through the ups and down of life.  He loves me when I am praising His name and He loves me when I am disappointing Him with my actions.  In the midst of all of his love for me we are reminded that God is good.  Perhaps we take this truth for granted but spend some time today thinking about that.  God is good!

In His Grip,

Pastor Dave