THE GIVING OF THANKS
Our
day to celebrate Thanksgiving is nearly here, this one holiday of ours
is one of the truly last un-comercialized holidays left though they are
trying. Thanksgiving is truly a Godly holiday as it is the giving of
thanks that is so important and is often neglected in society.
Giving of
thanks is such a wonderful thing to do as it takes our eyes off of our
self and our self-reliant attitudes and reflects on the giver instead
and recognizes the source of the blessings we enjoy each day and year
that we live on this earth.
We can thank
many things for what we have today. We thank all the men and women who
sacrificed their lives so we could have a nation so blessed. We can
thank our moms and dads for loving and caring for us as children and we
can thank the doctors and nurses who learned the trades of caring for
the sick and all the workers who build our roads and railways our cars
and planes. We can thank those who built our buildings and cities
which all are wonders in themselves as how they sustain themselves with
so many to feed and have adequate water supply and sewer disposal
systems so we dont become sick from disease. Thank all the ones
who hewed out of the wilderness of our nation the rescources we enjoy
today that we just take for granted as part of our heritage. We truly
need to be a thankfull people.
We have things
because they were given to us, even though we may toil and work long
hours to aquire material things it is still God who gave to you a body
and a mind that could work build, and when we see those who are less
fortunate than us must make us even be more humble and mindful
of how frail our existance really is and even be more thankful for in an
instant it could all change.
So whatever
you do to celebrate this wonderful day of Thanksgiving remember that
Jesus Christ gave thanks to the father for the bread and wine, broke the
bread drank the wine and then was crucified and gave his life up to
us for our sins that we could live forever, only if we would
choose to love and give thanks for his wonderful sacrifice of himself.
God is the source of all blessing as all things were and are from him
and no other. Jesus is the Lord as the bible declares.
(John 1:1-4 KJV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God.(2)
The same was in the beginning with God.(3)
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that
was made.(4)
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
(John 1:11-14 KJV)
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(12)
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on his name: (13)
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God. (14)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.
(Isa 44:24 KJV)
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the
womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the
heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Blessings to
you from the Lord,
Lee Kramer
http://www.lckweb.com/news4u
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