Take time this season to slow down and look at how God has blessed you. When the rainy cloud continues to hang over you while it seems everyone else is walking in sunshine, when you know in your head that you are blessed but can’t get your feelings on board with this truth, remind yourself of who you are and how you’ve been given far more than you deserve.

This week, many of us will gather with family and friends to feast and remind ourselves of all we have to be thankful for. Some enter this season joyfully and find it easy to spout off reasons for their thankfulness. Others have had a difficult year and already feel pressure to “look the part” this Thanksgiving.

Believers recognize that we all have reasons to be thankful, but sometimes we simply don’t feel it. What can we do to align our feelings with what we know to be true?

Scripture records many prayers of past saints for our edification, such as David’s prayer of thankfulness after God promised that his kingly descendant would reign forever (2 Sam. 7). In his prayer, David’s thankfulness overflows from an understanding of who he is and how God has dealt with him.

Remember Who You Are

I’m not someone of noble birth. I’m not well-known in the world, my country, or even in my state. I don’t have much money. I don’t run world-changing businesses that employs thousands of people.

Even if I were those things, even for those of you who are of noble birth, who have lots of money, and run major corporations…what is that to Almighty God? If I were to obtain all the gold in the world, would it be of any benefit to God? Would he gain anything by my connections or influence? What does he not have that any of us could offer him?

In his prayer, David asks “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?” (v. 18). In other words, David confesses that he’s a nobody.

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