Thanksgiving

Psalm 100

A psalm. For giving thanks.

1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness through all generations.

Everyone can be thankful. But if you think about it, thankfulness needs an object. To be thankful for something necessitates be thankful to someone.

Thanksgiving may not commemorate a religious event, such as Christmas or Easter, but it is not a "secular" holiday. The earliest Thanksgivings were celebrated by Americans who were are of their blessings, and that blessings, as well as rights, came from God, our Creator.

And so we pause to give him thanks.