When things are going well, it is easy to give thanks to Jesus. What about when things are going not so well?

Here is a story of a Rabbi that lived between 50 AD–135 AD – Rabbi Akiva - and about how “All that God does He does for the good.” (From: Jewishhistory.org)

“Rabbi Akiva’s favorite maxim was, “All that God does He does for the good.” Once, after he was unable to find any place to sleep in a certain city, he passed the night alone in the forest and repeated his maxim calmly, “All that God does is for the good.” Then, one after another, a lion devoured his donkey, a cat killed his rooster and the wind extinguished his candle. Each time he said, “All that God does is for the good.” When dawn arrived he discovered that a band of robbers had fallen upon the city and carried its inhabitants into captivity. Only he had escaped because his donkey and rooster were not around to make any noises and his extinguished candle did not give away his location (Berachos 60b).”

In EVERYTHING give thanks!