I’ve been thinking about “thanksgiving” not Thanksgiving as in the holiday, but as in “giving thanks.” Giving of thanks to the Lord above doesn’t require a holiday, a turkey, or family and friends, it requires understanding that no matter how much we try to deny it or are just blind to it – the truth is, that nothing we do is on own.
Everything we have and everything we accomplish is because of someone else – and in its finality it all tracks back to God. We can argue the contrary, but the facts are still the facts. If you have transportation for work, someone other than you was responsible for its creation and that someone was gifted outside of themselves with the vision, ability, and aptitude to bring it into being. If you are employed, someone other than yourself is responsible for the creation of said business, and no matter how old the business or how new, the aptitude to create same came from a “Source” outside of they themselves (or ourselves if self-employed), including the ability to absorb and comprehend what may have been taught.
I could go on and on, citing example after example, but agree or not you get my point. It’s important to give thanks always and in all things. And yes, that includes in the most difficult of times and the most painful of circumstances. I know that on some level, that may be hard to grasp, but it is no less true. Adults who were reprimanded as children will tell you they understand the benefit of same looking back, even though they may not have at that time. And, life, by it’s very nature is fraught with that which is impossible to understand in this life.
Scripture is replete with examples of the faithful giving thanks in the most dire of circumstances. It’s easy to give thanks when all is going our way – and we should. But, it is a sign of maturity when we can give thanks during times of pain and uncertainty.
But there is also the thanksgiving or giving of thanks as it were, for those God sends our way during the good times for us to share the blessings with – and those He sends our way to encourage us during the difficult times. And herein is the point I want to make. We are conditioned, indeed it’s reflexive to give thanks for things and stuff – but, it’s the giving of thanks for people – those we like and get along with, and those we think unpleasant things about – because both groups offer us something too learn and be thankful for if we are open to same.
I want give thanks this Thanksgiving for each and everyone of you, because you are responsible for inspiring me and challenging me in ways that have been nothing short of blessing upon blessing. Thank you all, not only for making this blog the success it has become in just five short months, but for your prayers, your words of encouragement, your comments, and witticisms, and yes even the contrarians.
I pray you and yours a special Thanksgiving and may it truly be a day of giving thanks. Happy Thanksgiving from me to you.
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I am truly grateful for you Mr. Massie. Thank you for taking the time to write TRUTH! God bless you abundantly, today and always.
minnie: thk you much
Mychal– I always say prayers help but the good Lord helps him that helps himself. Like Bill Sr. says, the people have to get out and vote if we are going to have changes in our government. We will never get anywhere if we sit back and rely on the good Lord to do it all for us. Amen.
ginny: that’s true and its not…actually God helps those who cannot help themselves…evidence salvation…sometimes waiting on the Lord is the precise course of action…voting in a lesser evil just to rid ourselves of a greater evil isn’t a plan of action in my mind…
I agree, so I ask,
What is really at stake here?
Unfortunately the 2012 election and the hoopla that goes with it is a distraction from the undeniable fact that we are truly and quite possibly in a final battle for the soul of America.
Past elections have been Childs play compared to the fight and consequences of the terms of engagement inherently involved and the ultimate outcome of this battle.
We simply must begin to grasp the magnitude of this struggle. A war against individual freedom of conscience and personal development within a moral society is and has been underway for several years.
The Judea-Christian society born in the 18th century here on American soil which established a Republic that forged a gentle giant of a nation offering that individual hope and freedom to it’s own inhabitants and to the poor or oppressed around the globe is being challenged by the political descendants of despots from past tyrannical governments.
History would not allow these masters of deceit to ever capture men’s hearts here in the land of the free with the God they openly acknowledged and sought guidance from until the minds of the young were out of the hands of their parents and into the arms of a far reaching government bureaucracy always disguised as a benevolent “care giver”.
Yes, that was the first step; public schools were recognized as the primary target to begin the eventual transformation. By the middle of the last century the progressives “owned” and for the most part operated both elementary and secondary education in America.
The educational “dumbing down” of Americans involved more than the rewriting of history. It had to include a reformation of conscience and destruction of Judeo-Christian morality to accomplish the evil intent of those wanting to break the back of Bible totting flag waving patriots who cling to their right to own guns.
Unlike the sudden and brutal Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which awakened a sleeping giant, this sneak attack was a long silent but deadly poisoning of the minds and morals of a nation until it began to compromise it’s values in the name of “fairness” weakening it’s will to staunchly defend the principles on which it was founded.
The enemy is now not only within our society it is in political control of our society at present. Politics is the tool or weapon of the real enemy. We must understand the enemy is EVIL in all the forms of suggestive information, entertainment, or political theory it can use to conceal its character and the only remaining obstacle to its success is the waning moral fiber left in the values held by Judeo-Christians patriots of this country.
Thus, it is all together fitting that we demand our leaders and the candidates for the presidency in particular to profess those values and vow to govern justly by them and to boldly face the critics who dare suggest they are not relevant in the political arena.
We can pray our hearts out but we need to willingly express publicly as well as to the Father that we do cherish our faith and freedom and deserve His help.
Time is running out. It’s now or never. As students of history and/or an ardent believer in the word of God as given to us, who among us can deny the Evil that is staring us in the face today?
God Help Us
bill sr: I think we may see an interesting election cycle this time around…you can only kick a dog for so long before it snals at you and then bites you…