Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours on this day! Of all the subjects that one might write this morning, there is only one thing for today - gratitude - giving our thanks unto the Lord. We may do many other things on this day, but the central thread of living today is giving up our thanks to God. The world will provide all manner of opportunity for grumbling as it does on any other day. We must turn our minds to thankfulness. Is it only the Lord though? Ah, glad I asked that.
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matt. 22:37-40 NKJV).
So, it seems right to also thank those with us on this day as we give our thanks to the Lord. For we are brothers and sisters in Christ on this day as on all days, and today we pay especial attention to giving thanks to each other as well. We are all God's family and the Spirit of Christ dwells in each of us. So let the giving of thanks spread far on this Thanksgiving Day. We have much to be thankful for and a great God to whom we give our thanks.
Thank you, dear Lord God for your sovereign grace,Bucky
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