This, without a doubt, is my favorite month of the year! When November rolls around, and Halloween is behind us, and the wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and Christmas season is ahead, my merry-meter definitely starts to rise! Today my heart sings with thanksgiving.
I try each day in November to focus on one thing for which to thank God. I do try to be grateful all the time throughout the year, but November is my in-depth-thank-you-God time each year.
This first day of November my mind turned to Psalm 138, a psalm of David, labeled in my Bible as “A Thankful Heart.” It begins …
“I will give You thanks with all my heart; I will sing Your praise before the heavenly beings. I will bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your constant love and truth. You have exalted Your name and Your promise above everything else. On the day I called, You answered me; You increased strength within me.” [vs 1-3 HCSB]
“On the day I called, You answered me.”
My thanksgiving begins there, on that day 50 years ago when I called out to God and He answered me with grace, with mercy, with salvation. I may not have known it at the time, but it was the greatest day of my life – to be only equaled by that day when I see Him face to face.
Thank you, LORD, that you not only heard my call but that You answered the deepest need of my heart! Amen
