How We Christians
Celebrate
our Day of GREAT
Thanksgiving
Have we thanked HIM+ for the times HE+ has NOT given us our heart’s desire . . . that later would have landed us into heart-ache and deep regrets for a life-time ?
The CHRISTIAN’S Day of
Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the American holiday of turkey and pumpkin pie, not even of family
get-togethers. It has nothing to do with cranberry sauce nor stuffing for the
fowl, with gravy.
Why is this ? It is because we
are citizens of ANOTHER Country.
We are simply SOJOURNERS passing
through our temporary abode until we reach our FATHER’S LAND , our Heavenly
home wherein Righteousness dwells.
Currently, this nation is only
where The FATHER placed us.
If we do happen to be involved in this nation’s
temporal public work force, we welcome the days off around any civil holiday,
of course, but we do not focus our hearts upon holiday-keeping.
No , rather, we focus on WHO we
give thanks unto: The LORD JESUS CHRIST Who+ has blessed us with spiritual
blessings in Heavenly places.
Thanksgiving day is an excellent
time to take an inventory of WHAT we have for which we give HIM+ thanks.
·
Have we thanked HIM+ for
the times HE+ has NOT given us our heart’s desire . . . that later would have
landed us into heart-ache and deep regrets for a life-time ?
·
Have we thanked HIM+ for
the many times HE+ has blocked our goal
. . . a goal that eventually would have led us out of His+ Will . . . for all
Eternity ?
·
Have we thanked HIM+ for
the people who shunned us, who would not accept us . . . who would have torn us away from our Heavenly FATHER ?
·
Have we thanked HIM+ for
the painfully lonely times . . . when we
had only ONE TRUE+ FRIEND there in our darkest hours ?
·
Have we thanked HIM+ for
capturing all our tears in His+ Bottle ? . . . Psalm 56:8
·
Have we thanked HIM+ for
Sanctifying our hardships by His+ Blessed HOLY SPIRIT . . . so that, when strengthened by HIM+, we may be
used to strengthen others going through such hardships of heart and body and
mind ?
·
Have we thanked The LORD
JESUS for bringing us much needed correction
. . . when we were walking head-strong into danger ?
·
Have we thanked The LORD
for knowing our every thought and every weakness . . . yet continuing to call us to come CLOSER and
closer to HIM+ ?
·
Have we ever thanked The
LORD for the Lonely Existence HE+ assigns us . . . which makes us hunger and
thirst for HIM+ ?
·
Have we thanked The LORD
JESUS for revealing to us our underlying motives for the things we do . . . so that we can repent of serving our
ever-present, ever-noxious Self ?
·
Have we ever taken the time
to thank HIM+ for delivering us from self-pity , bitterness, and resentment ?
·
Have we thought to thank
HIM+ for the Calling Home of someone dear to us
. . . so that he could now experience the joyous LIFE in Heaven with no
more grief and sorrow in his own earthly life ?
·
Have we thanked The LORD
JESUS for the Cross HE+ is causing us to carry now, for His+ Name’s Sake, for
our growth, and for our eventual
blessing ?
Our LORD is greater than all our burdens, all our handicaps, all our sorrows, and all our needs. HE+ is greater than all our understanding.
In all His+ greatness, HE+ lacks only one thing:
OUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.
Will HE+ have our undivided attention when
friends and family like us, when our income is rolling in, when we have no
fears, no needs, no struggles ?
NO.
No, indeed.
Yes, we may toss up a quick
“Thank You, LORD!” . . . but we will be
too distracted for deep prayer when all is going well; we will go on about our
business of fulfilling Self.
No quality time will be found for
The LORD when all goes well .
So, let us cultivate --- work at --- a heart of Thanksgiving when all does NOT go
well, for be guaranteed: that is The
FATHER’S Will concerning us.
And, HIS Will is this: for us to become QUIETER AND DRAW CLOSER into the Bosom of HIS SON+ JESUS, and in so doing, becoming fit for The Kingdom of GOD.
Let us pray:
Thank YOU+, LORD JESUS , for not
abandoning us when we deserved to be abandoned, when we sought our pleasure
away from YOU+, when we pursued our happiness our way, instead of Yours+ .
Thank YOU+, Precious SAVIOR+, for
having patience with us when we went astray, for calling us back to Your+ side,
and for that Swift Arm of Correction that we felt on our back-sides.
Thank YOU+ for keeping us.
Blessed be Your+ Holy NAME, LORD
JESUS. Thank YOU+ for being KING+ of
kings and LORD+ of lords and for returning some day soon to reveal Your+ True
Sovereignty to all people upon this
earth.
Glory be to The
FATHER
and to HIS Holy SON+
JESUS CHRIST
and to the Blessed
HOLY SPIRIT.
Amen
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