FROM THE SUPREME KNIGHT’S DESK
MONTHLY REFLECTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2025 ON THE THEME,
“GRATITUDE AND THANKSGIVING”
GREETINGS:
I bring you greetings and love in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and to all who
are so grateful to God for all His mighty works and wonders. God’s giving deserves
our thanksgiving. We thank God for how far He has brought us. Bringing the 35th
Supreme leadership headed by Sir Knight Richard Ayih-AKAKPO to a successful end,
he has ushered the 36th leadership headed by my unworthy self into office. With
God’s never-ending love and compassion for all of us, which is clarified in Jeremiah
31:3 that talks about how God loved us with an everlasting love that draws us to him
through our Lord Jesus Christ, we cannot help but to thank him.
In the quiet places of our hearts, you and I both understand the deep and enduring
importance of gratitude. We spend time teaching our children how to say “thank you,”
and how to write notes of appreciation. But then we adults often fail to take the time
to say, “thank you.” Sometimes we think, “Well, the other person including God
knows that I am grateful. Why belabor the obvious?”
However, the truth about the matter is that a grateful heart that expresses
thanksgiving in a sincere way – builds strong friendships. That applies not only on a
human level, but also to our communication with God. So we thank the Lord for all
favours received and for the support of all brothers and sisters.
The power of gratitude can be seen by way of contrast. The opposite of gratitude is
complaining. We complain because we are unhappy and ungrateful about our lives.
We all need to stop complaining and start enjoying the company of each other as
brothers and be grateful to God for making us brothers of the Noble Order of Knights
of Marshall.
This one act of love from God himself is a reason to give God thanks today and
always. The Psalmist says “Give thanks to God for he is good, and his love endures
forever.” Ps. 106:1. His love is steadfast in all circumstances and this is the will of
God in Christ Jesus. Psalm 100 calls on us, “to enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise, be thankful unto him and to bless his holy name. For the
Lord is good and his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations”.
God has promised us also that he would never leave us nor forsake us, but be with
us until the very end. With that assurance, we would like to be so thankful to the
Lord for the things that he will do in future. We want to thank God for the grace and
power he will give us to stand, be steadfast and unmovable always abounding in the
work of the Lord, that our labor will not in vain. We want to thank God, knowing that
he will be our strength in the time of weakness, our refuge and a mighty refuge in
the times of trouble.
Thank you brothers for your support and prayerful best wishes. May we all have
grateful hearts to thank the Lord at all times and in all circumstances for
thanksgiving is at the heart of our salvation.
PRAYER:
Lord, teach us to see your goodness in all we do. May we find reason to thank
you even in the big and small, extraordinary and ordinary things of life;
breath, friendships, sunrise, a shared meal, a quiet time. Through Christ our
Lord, Amen.
Sir Knight Bro. Constantine Kudzedzi
Supreme Knight