This last Tuesday night our church had a "usual" Thanksgiving service, full of special music, songs of thanks, and a sermon on being thankful.
But there was nothing usual about this service.
You see, it was in honor of a local Pastor named Joe Miller who's body is full of cancer and according to the doctors only has a few months to live. He is in our human view, way too young to be so close to dying. This man is the one who preached the sermon for this Thanksgiving service; it was as far as we know, his last sermon he preached.
Let me tell you, when someone says to thank God for everything, the good and the bad, in all circumstances, it tends to go in one ear, I nod and smile, then out my other ear it goes. But when a man who is going through all that Joe is going through says that, I listen up. Boy, did I listen up.
Joe shared with us that God IS good and He can bring good out of EVERY situation if we let Him and follow Him and keep praising Him. I know he meant it- I know he believed it. This man is definitely living what he's preaching as he's dying.
I encourage you to listen to his own words from him here. It was a powerful and challenging reminder for this Thanksgiving and for all the time. God is good!
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Wow, thanks so much for this reminder - two people who have lost their wives in the last year gave their testimonies at our church on Sunday morning, and I heard it was really powerful - this actually reminded me to hop over to our church's website & listen to it now (I was home with sick kids Sunday!). God is good, all the time, but it's so easy to remember to give thanks for the FUN things, and not so much the hard things.
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