In America we have access to anything we want or need. Even if you can’t afford something you can buy it on credit or even pay for it in food stamps . This really can be good or it can be bad. So much of the world doesn’t have as much as Americans do and I think so often we take it for granted. We become complacent and whine because we have to wait in a long line for the fast food. Or we complain because we can’t afford those designer boots for our new outfit. Those are what I like to call rich people problems. I really have no idea what it’s like to not have a need met. I always have more than enough money to buy the food I need to feed my family. I have freezers full of food and a fridge that needs cleaned out from the rotting food that we have so much of.
That’s why this next day of thankfulness, I want to use the day to think of food. It asks what food are you most thankful for. But today I want to marvel in the fact that I have food to lift to my mouth and fill my stomach, I have food to place in front of my children and watch them enjoy. Not only is it food, its health whole food that I can feel satisfied in serving them. It will nourish their growing bodies. Today I just want to be thankful for food alone.
The thankfulness scripture for today is Psalm 95:2-3 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the king above all gods.
So as the psalm says, let us come before him with thanksgiving for the food that we can afford to put on our tables to feed our bodies and our families. Let us take time to remember how fortunate we are in America to have that food readily available for us. Let us remember that our next meal comes from the greatest provider and giver of all.
Thank you Lord for the food I put on our table and into my mouth. thank you Lord for providing all my needs physically, spiritually and emotionally. Lord Jesus help me not become greedy and ungrateful for the way that all my needs are provided and not loose sight of He who provides them for me. In Jesus name, Amen
Signing off from one woman to another,
Jenny Wren