In my morning worship this Thanksgiving Day 2021 I was mediating on the GOODNESS of God when symptoms and circumstances were screaming at me. My wife was ill, both my daughters are in the midst of trials, not to mention my church family that is under major attack! I know they are many right now who are hurting and there are thoughts going over and over in their minds of bad trying to cover over the good.

We see so much division in our families, our nation and yes, the world! So the question arises how can I be thankful with all this hurt, turmoil and yes pain. You this day may be in a place of great suffering from things that are not your fault OR even of your own making. But we need to re-examine what we are feeling. That's when I heard the phrase: "when the GOOD is GONE"! We need to address that thought by the Word! Hold that thought and stop and take some medicine (Proverbs 4:22 God's Word is medicine):

{Proverbs 4:20-23 (AMPC) My son, attend to MY WORDS; consent and submit to my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. 22 For they are LIFE to those who find them, HEALING AND HEALTH to all their flesh. 23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.}

*Psalm 100:1-5 (KJV) Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. [2] Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. [3] KNOW YE THAT THE LORD HE IS GOD: IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US, AND NOT WE OURSELVES; WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE. [4] Enter into HIS GATES with thanksgiving, and into HIS COURTS with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. [5] FOR THE LORD IS GOOD; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Note verse 3 you are the creation of the Lord, we are His people the sheep of His pasture. To live a life of Thanksgiving we need to see ourselves correctly and then see the Lord God correctly. Somethings of truth we will never receive until we do verse 4!

The devil desires to deflect us from God's GOODNESS by bringing BAD THINGS in our lives. But notice verse 5 tells us FOR THE LORD IS GOOD! He doesn't just do GOOD He is the source of all GOOD:

*Genesis 1:31 (KJV) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Notice this the 7TH TIME in this chapter "GOOD" is named as a product of God's Creation! When you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior you return to God as your Father:

*James 1:16-17( KJV) Do not err, my beloved brethren. [17] EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Will you receive this peace building truth? God wants to be your Father, it's the devil trying to get us to err from the truth. The devil sowed division and death in the garden but a GOOD GOD GAVE:

*Romans 8:31-32 (KJV) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? [32] He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?

Note a GOOD GOD FREELY GIVES His children all things because we first receive His GIFT of Jesus! The GOOD is not GONE, it's just the devil who is the author of sin, sickness and death wants you to come in agreement with that lie! Just as God had workers so does the devil: *3 John 1:11