We are thankful when we obtain that which we pursue in our lives.<\/p>\n
If your main pursuit is for material things, position or pleasure then you can only be thankful when those temporary things are present.<\/p>\n
If you want to be thankful in all situations you must be pursuing something eternal, you must pursue Jesus!<\/p>\n
Question: How are you pursuing Jesus this Thanksgiving?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are you thankful for?<\/p>\n
If you’re like me you can easily come up with a long list of nice things in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-thanksgiving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/difference-in-the-pursuit.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-To","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1648,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/why-we-are-thankful\/","url_meta":{"origin":3434,"position":0},"title":"Why We are Thankful!","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"November 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a great time to share with you why we are thankful. 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