Song 3 -- Jesus Thank You

With a collective day of thanksgiving coming up, I only find it fitting to do the song, Jesus Thank You.  This song came about when I was considering just what people seem to give thanks for.  I noticed that people where always ready and wiiling to give thanks for all of the blessings.  That is good, the problem is that most of those blessings were things that were happening in peoples lives that were visably good.  What about the things that seem visably bad.  Are those a time to give thanks?  I say, more so.  One of my most favorite passages of scripture are found in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians chapters 4 and 5.  They explained what Jesus said and what he meant when he said "In this world you will have many trials, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." In Chapter 4, verses 8 -11, Paul writes, "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.  For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh".  Verses 16 -18, "Therefore we do not loose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.  For momentary, light affliction is creating for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal".  Although the trials may not look like they are a good thing, they are being used to create, in a believer in Jesus, what they will be forever.  The hard times that you go though are like weights to a body builder,  as the weight increases your muscle grow and the more you can carry.  So I find it very important to give thanks in both the good things that happen in our lives and more so the things that seem to be not so good.  Good or bad, it's all good.  Paul wrote in his first letter to the Thessalonians, Chapter 5, verse 18, " In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus".  Peter wrote in his first letter, Chapter 1, verses 6 and 7, "......even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith is more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  Have a great collective day of thanksgiving, but more importantly remember to give thanks everyday, whether good or bad, for it is all good.  Peace to you .