How can it be that we devote only one day a year to giving thanks?  We have so much to be thankful for, Thanksgiving should be a year-long holiday.  But we are served every year by this holiday: more than the official start of the Christmas shopping season (although it appears that Halloween is beginning to assume this role), Thanksgiving is a wonderful reminder that we must thank God for all that we’ve been given.

What have we been given?  A better question would be: what have we not been given?  1 Corinthians 4:7 says:

“For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?”

We deserve eternal punishment for our sins, and instead we receive grace and mercy, compassion and kindness.  Our sins are cleansed, removed, forgiven.  And on top of that, God allows us to enjoy things like smoothies.  He grace is so abundant, we get to multiple smoothie shops from which to choose!  Amazing!

The point is, everything good that we have, and everything bad that we’ve been spared, has come from outside of us.  In other words, we must give thanks for everything we’ve been given, because all of it comes from God as a gift.  Let’s make this Thanksgiving week, Thanksgiving month, Thanksgiving year.

More to come…

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