Monday, November 10 – “This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time,’” (Jeremiah 33:20) This is simply ridiculous. Day will always be day and night will always be night. A great deal in this life is uncertain, but this isn’t one of those things. This is something in which to be thankful. For no matter what’s happening in your corner of the world, your reality is this: The sun will set tonight and rise again tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 11 – “Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.” (Ecclesiastes 1:4) The earth will remain forever, in this reality. Between now and when this reality comes to an end and a new reality begins, the earth will remain constant. We’ll have seasons. We’ll have day and night. We’ll have natural disasters. We’ll have phenomenal sunsets. We’ll have birth and death. And all of this is something in which to be thankful.
Wednesday, November 12 – “They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.” (Isaiah 49:10) This is God’s word to Israel. A promise, a covenant, that God will care for Israel. Well, through Jesus, you’ve been adopted as sons and daughters of God. This means, like Israel, God will also take care of you. And that’s something in which to be thankful.
Thursday, November 13 – “God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” (Genesis 1:5) This is where it all began. From this point forward, our reality was day and night, in regular cycles. Cycles that will repeat until the end of time, as we know it. No matter what you’re experiencing today, tonight the sun will set and tomorrow morning the sun will rise. And that’s something in which to be thankful.
Friday, November 14 – “Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” (Revelation 21:1) There will come a day when there will be a new heaven and a new earth. The old will pass away and the new will be born. Until that day comes, you’ll have day and night, the seasons of the year, trials, tribulations, success, awe and wonder and life and death. And that’s something in which to be thankful.
Saturday, November 15 – “And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” (1 Peter 3:21) Because of Jesus, you have a “clear conscience toward God”. And that’s the only thing that all of us could ever ask for. For you’ll never be perfect, if perfect means doing everything right. Yet, if perfect means that you’re the best version of you that you can be, right here, right now; then that’s something in which to be thankful. For you can have “a clear conscience toward God”, because of Jesus.
Tuesday, November 11 – “Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.” (Ecclesiastes 1:4) The earth will remain forever, in this reality. Between now and when this reality comes to an end and a new reality begins, the earth will remain constant. We’ll have seasons. We’ll have day and night. We’ll have natural disasters. We’ll have phenomenal sunsets. We’ll have birth and death. And all of this is something in which to be thankful.
Wednesday, November 12 – “They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.” (Isaiah 49:10) This is God’s word to Israel. A promise, a covenant, that God will care for Israel. Well, through Jesus, you’ve been adopted as sons and daughters of God. This means, like Israel, God will also take care of you. And that’s something in which to be thankful.
Thursday, November 13 – “God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” (Genesis 1:5) This is where it all began. From this point forward, our reality was day and night, in regular cycles. Cycles that will repeat until the end of time, as we know it. No matter what you’re experiencing today, tonight the sun will set and tomorrow morning the sun will rise. And that’s something in which to be thankful.
Friday, November 14 – “Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” (Revelation 21:1) There will come a day when there will be a new heaven and a new earth. The old will pass away and the new will be born. Until that day comes, you’ll have day and night, the seasons of the year, trials, tribulations, success, awe and wonder and life and death. And that’s something in which to be thankful.
Saturday, November 15 – “And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” (1 Peter 3:21) Because of Jesus, you have a “clear conscience toward God”. And that’s the only thing that all of us could ever ask for. For you’ll never be perfect, if perfect means doing everything right. Yet, if perfect means that you’re the best version of you that you can be, right here, right now; then that’s something in which to be thankful. For you can have “a clear conscience toward God”, because of Jesus.
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