A uniquely American Holiday.....Thanksgiving.
Born out of a time of testing and survival, it originally had nothing to do with lifestyle. It had everything to do with being grateful for not being dead or having starved to death.
Those first immigrants to this shore were met with extreme hardship in their attempt to establish a colony here in this "new country."
Today families across this nation will gather around tables of food and give thanks. But who is the thanks directed to? Are we giving thanks for our own efforts and strength, that we have made it another year? Is it just a token Holiday, or do we truly have grateful hearts for what the real-deal-God-of-the-heavens has done in us, through us and for us?
Let true thanks rule in your home this day.
Stop and look beyond the material to that realm of the spiritual and see the true measure of what it means to be thankful.
"For this reason I bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-----to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. That you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
Happy Thanksgiving from the Bynum Household....
God on you....
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