I don’t know about you, but I look forward to Thanksgiving Day. I look forward to eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and there is usually wonderful desert (even though I don’t like pumpkin pie, the rest of my family loves it).
Then after I’m stuffed, I love to “watch” football. Usually, I’m so full from eating that I invariably fall asleep in the recliner, until someone catches me and gives me a hard time for sleeping. (Ah, life is good, I can imagine all of this already).
I’m being honest with you here, this is what I usually do on Thanksgiving. But is this what Thanksgiving is all about? Most of us may think of our families on Thanksgiving and most of us are probably thankful for them.
So how about you, what are you thankful for? Your life? Your family? Your job? Your status? Your home? Deep down inside, what are you truly thankful for?
Why do you celebrate thanksgiving? Because of our forefathers coming to America? A lot of us probably don’t realize that Thanksgiving Day started in 1621. The governor of Pilgrim Colony (in Plymouth Massachusetts) declared it a day to “render Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for all His blessings.”
Now I admitted earlier that I look forward to eating at Thanksgiving and I have been thankful for my family in the past, but I haven’t honored God, by thanking Him for His blessings. Read Psalm 103 today if you get a chance.
Will you join me in thanking and praising God this year for His blessings? I hope you do.