Thanksgiving 2025

Family, I wanted to share this because over the past few days, I’ve noticed something: people are giving out thanks everywhere — to friends, co-workers, strangers, and even to situations. And while there’s nothing wrong with appreciating people, I rarely hear anyone directing their gratitude to Our Father, the One who is most deserving.

I’ve been thanked before, and then later ridiculed by the same person. I’ve done things that were thank-worthy, and then later done things that were disappointing or shameful. That’s the reality of all of us as humans — we are inconsistent. We get it right, and then we mess up. But there is only One who is always good, always faithful, always worthy of our thanks.

That’s why Scripture reminds us:
“In everything give thanks…” (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

Not because everything that happens is good, but because God is good — unfailingly.

During this season of Thanksgiving, we talk a lot about gratitude, but like many holidays, the meaning gets clouded. And if we look back honestly, even the origins of Thanksgiving weren’t always beautiful. There was pain, conflict, and bloodshed in the story. This is what happens when our gratitude is misdirected — it becomes temporary and unfulfilling.

But when we direct our thanks to the Lord, everything shifts.

We are thanking the One who makes all things possible.
We are thanking the Savior who redeemed our past, strengthens our present, and has secured our future.
We are thanking Him not only for what He has done, but for what He has already accomplished on our behalf — even the blessings we haven’t fully stepped into yet.

Recently, being in the business we’re in and also updating our family trust, it made me think of something deeper: the Kingdom has a trust as well.

God has already placed an inheritance aside for us — fully funded, fully secured, fully ours. But like a trust fund, we don’t receive everything at once. Over time, as we walk with Him and grow in Him, more of what He already prepared becomes released into our lives. What Christ finished on the cross is complete… and we spend our lives learning how to walk in the fullness of it.

So this Thanksgiving season, let your gratitude be anchored in Him.
Let your thanks rise to the only One who never changes.
And remember: when our thanks is directed to the Lord, it doesn’t just fill a season - it fills a lifetime.