Thanksgiving

What is Thanksgiving?

1) Thanksgiving is to be thankful for every little thing we have in our lives.  Sometimes we mourn what we have lost or what we do not have. Paul in Eph.5:20 writes, “Giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  Surely the pilgrims and the Native American’s had lost friends and families.  Pilgrims had lost much in the raging waters of the sea, and the Natives had lost much in the hands of the cruel slave traders. Yet, that Thanksgiving Day they gave thanks to God for what has survived, and what they had. Can we be thankful for everything that we have, everything that has survived through our life’s many storms?

2) Thanksgiving is to be thankful for the lot we have. Some think that it is so easy to be thankful when you have a lot or everything.  Well, it is not. Deut.8:11-12 warns us in this regard, “Take care that you do not forget the Lord your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. ¹²When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them..” When the pilgrims celebrated the Thanksgiving there were eleven houses in Plymouth Colony.  Today that Plymouth Colony has grown to be the United States of America, one of the richest nations in the world with many houses and many Sky Scrapers lining the streets of our cities.  But, the question is, "Are we still thankful?"  Or has our plenty taken away our thankfulness to God? 

Have a great Thanksgiving!