Giving Thanks Always for All Things

A few years back my kids were in AWANAS. We don’t go to that church anymore so now they attend our current church’s “Kid’s Club”.
For AWANAS every week the children, even 2 year old Issac, each had a verse to learn each week and it was up to me, the Mommy, to make sure they had it. Each child had a different verse because of their age differences and I always managed to forget about their verse until the last minute, meaning that we spent Wednesday afternoon rushing around the house trying to find all their AWANAS things shouting out their verses to one another. I never got that completely sorted out but we did finally solve the verse issue.

Every Wednesday night at dinner we would make up song that contained all three of their verses. Usually it worked out to be a catchy little song that they would run around singing until we got to AWANAS where they would promptly refuse to have anything to do with it. But that isn’t the point.

I remember one particular week, probably near Thanksgiving, when we couldn’t find Issac’s book so it was just the two girls and their verses. We made up a cute little song which we remember till this day, and which seemed very suitable for this week.

We are “giving thanks always for all things,” for “all things were made by Him”

Which we made up of their combined verses, Ephesians 5:20 & John 1:3. Somehow, that little song stuck around and always seems to pop up around Thanksgiving, fo obvious reasons.

See, we are called to give thanks always for ALL things and it is partly because ALL things were made by Him. Sure things fall apart, including our bodies as we get older, but that is a result of sin in the world. Yet all things, even in this fallen world, were made by Him and we are to give thanks for everything, always. And of course

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28

There is that “all things” again. So even in this fallen world, all things work together for good. So doesn’t it stand to reason that we should give thanks for all things, since all things were made by Him, and all things work together for the good of those of us who love Him.

So, this Thanksgiving when you are thanking Him for all the good, comfortable stuff, don’t forget to thank Him for the challenging things, the uncomfortable, hurting things. They too are to be used for your good because He loves you.

And don’t mind me if you hear me humming our little diddy. It’s rather tuneless but somehow it sticks in your head, and is a wonderful reminder to give thanks always for all things for all things were made by Him.

What tune are you humming today? Are you singing your praises? Are you singing a dirge? Are you shouting from the mountain tops or gasping for breath as you climb out of a valley? Wherever you are, whatever your mood, let us join our voices together to sing His praises today.

Lord, regardless of where we stand today we praise You for Your blessings, all of them, even the ones that seem more like curses. Lord, you have promised to use all things for our good and we trust you to do so. Lord, we lift our voices in joyful chorus to sing a song of praise and thanksgiving this day. We worship You and bow down before You. Your’s are the cattle of a thousand hills, the sheep of every valley, Your’s are seas and rivers. It all belongs to You and we praise you this day with all creation.

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