Thanksgiving Day is upon us. The current climate, the current atmosphere being touted is don’t. Don’t travel, don’t gather, don’t… Fear is being used to drive us away from enjoying this holiday. On the opposite side of the fear mongering is advice from many sources to ignore the directives. My only thought concerning the times is do as you and your family are comfortable doing. Evaluation of your health, your family and friends’ health should be of concern regardless of all the information overkill and directives. Remembering the day was “set aside” for Thanksgiving.
It would be my prayer that our thanksgiving go beyond that one day. God’s word is filled with thankfulness. When we rise, when we walk, when we work, rest, or play. Even when we are sick, persecuted and angry.
Psalms 7:17
“I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.”
Ephesians 5:19-21
“addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
For many families, this is the one time they all get to be together. Pray for these families.
For other families, it is a trial — arguments, old remembrances impede any joy of thankfulness that the holiday portends to achieve. Here needs to be prayer and thanksgiving as well. Not to marginalize the issues, but to remember he who can heal all things as he did in bringing us back to God through his sacrifice. Pray for these families.
Philippians 4:4-7
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
So as we remember who has provided all we are thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day.
1. We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; He chastens and hastens his will to make known; the wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to his name; he forgets not his own.
2. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine; so from the beginning the fight we were winning; thou, Lord, wast at our side; all glory be thine!
3. We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant, and pray that thou still our defender wilt be. Let thy congregation escape tribulation; thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good and His Mercy endures forever.
Happy Thanksgiving!?!
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