Dear One,

I am glad you said “my God”. This makes answering this question a lot easier. Our God has told us to pray, read His word, trust, believe, and do! This is the whole of following Him and getting our thoughts consumed with our God rather than the doom going on in the world. For the Christian we have no doom. We have so much to be thankful for!

The very first thing we are so thankful for is the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross for us. By His coming to earth, dying on the cross, resurrecting from the dead, and His ascending back to His original abode in heaven, we have the ability to live with Him for eternity! I am so thankful for that, and that is the second thing for us to be thankful for… OUR SALVATION.

Salvation in the Greek is soteria meaning deliverance, preservation, soundness, prosperity, happiness, rescue, general well-being. The word is used both in material, temporal sense and in a spiritual, eternal sense.

The Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 6:17, And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. The word take means to use the helmet and the word of God to overcome the evil in this world. The helmet of salvation covers our head causing our mind to only think on how the promises of God belong to us…then we can use the word of God and His promises to overcome the evil that is in the world around us. Feelings are just feelings but truth is what we stand on. We are in the world but not of it! This alone will cause us to be thankful knowing our Lord is in charge no matter how it looks or feels.