Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, There's of course some great cooking being done for family and friends to enjoy. But how often do you think of Christ and what he's done for us, giving and offering up his life and bringing great hope to a lost and dying world. There should be a difference in how we express ourselves during this time of the year and how the world expresses itself. Were way too quick to jump to Christmas with the key focus on Black friday and don't reflect enough on the cross, Christ awesome love for us and how he brought us up out of our slavery to sin. And so the question must be asked, do I have a grateful heart today? Am I depending way too much on gifts rather than the giver Himself? Do I complain more than expressing my grattitude for all the Lord has done? May God help us to truly reflect and focus on what really matters most, our relationship with God, our families and knowing that one day we will spend eternity with Him.