Being Thankful

Have you ever watched the commercials around Thanksgiving time, where families are sitting around the table and giving the appearances of being so thankful for their families and for being able to have a big Thanksgiving meal with their love ones?  Everyone seems so happy. This is not alway the case for some at this time of the year, because of the death of loved ones. We look at these people and we feel sorry for them and sometimes we have the prescence of mind to invite them to our dinners, because we feel this is the right thing to do.

Believers do not want pity because Christ has given us joy in this journey.   He has also given us hope and a future and because of this we can truly be thankful. We are not thankful for the things we have at this time of year but we are thankful for Who we have, in the person of Christ Jesus.  This time of the year can bring about a lot of depression because of expectations and losses but we are to continue to rejoice in what we have in Christ.

For all of you who read this blog today, I want you to know the appearance is not bleak, because we have something to be thankful for and that is found in Christ. The First Thanksgiving celebrated by  Americans was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World. We believers have a World that this world knows nothing of and in this my brothesr and sisters you can be thankful.

I can hardly wait for the day that I can sit down and feast with Christ and my loved ones who has gone ahead of me to be in the prescence of Christ. I don't know if we will have turkey and dressing, but I do know that we will eat because Jesus ate with his disciples after his ressurection. (John 21:12,13) Those people in those commercial will not compare to the smiles that the saints will have when we dine with our Lord. Guess what? Our smile will be genuine, because we truly will have something to be thankful for.

I think the people who celebrated the first Thanksgiving had the right attituded, they celebrated and thank God because they knew that their new found country was given to them by Him. I encourage you, my brothers and sisters to thank God also because we did not find our new country, but it was freely given to us by God Himself (John 14:2). We as believers celebrate Thanksgiving Day on a daily basis because we have something worth celebrating.