Thanksgiving Pondering....

Usually around the Thanksgiving holiday in November people start talking about all the things they are thankful for.  I hear people say all sorts of wonderful things such as their "church families" to just being thankful for "life", a "dog" or a "dependable car".  Often, people use social media such as "facebook" to list things they are thankful for each day during November.  Personally, I think this is great!  A person who lives with a thankful heart is definitely a happier person!

While I can appreciate these acknowledgements of being thankful,  there is an underlying blessing that some probably miss.  A person who is thankful for money, a dependable car, or any other inanimate object are really not thankful for the specific item.  They are really thankful for the peace that it brings.  Money is just paper and metal.  Cars and houses are just boxes for us to drive around or live in.  The peace that those things offer us is the real blessing.  

Above all other things, I am thankful for PEACE.  I am thankful for the peace in my heart knowing that Jesus died for my sin.  Since I know this I don't have to ponder the hereafter.  When His word tells me that my hairs are numbered and his plans for me a nothing but good, that gives me supreme peace of mind!  Knowing that I am the "head and not the tail, above and not beneath", and that "no weapon formed against me shall prosper"....folks, that is peace smothered in gravy and served with imported coffee from heaven!