Thankfulness for a believer is more than a positive attitude or even some sort of goal we strive to live our lives for. It is the overflow of a life found and lived in Jesus Christ; we are to BE thankful. We see this in our focus verse for this series: the peace of Christ should control our heart which leads us to thankfulness. As we follow Jesus, we are thankful for His presence in our lives and learn to appreciate how God uses the events in our life, even those considered “good” and “bad”, to help us grow and mature in our faith. Being thankful is not always easy in the heat of the moment, when the tempest is raging, but when the peace of Christ controls our heart, we can arrive at the point where we are thankful for the tempest in the end.
