Thanksgiving

I’ve always had mixed feelings about Thanksgiving.

While it’s nice to set aside time to be thankful…we should really be thinking of things to be thankful about every day, Why set aside just one day out of the whole year? Eating a lot of food doesn’t have anything to do with being thankful…it just causes stress for the people who make it…and you know the people who are cleaning up aren’t thankful. Or maybe they are.

As followers of Christ, we’re called to give thanks and praise to God. It doesn’t say when, or how many times..but I feel like we need to be doing this every day.

I came across this really powerful verse yesterday, that I just think is so amazing.Hebrews 12:28…

“Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakeable, let us be thankful and please God by worshipping him with holy fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire”

This is from the NLT version. I’ve been trying to comprehend this verse for the last few days, and it’s really made me think, that I need to stop and genuinely praise the God who created me for everything I have in my life. He’s given me the greatest gift ever, so the least that I can do is stop and thank Him. To think that I’m getting an “unshakeable” Kingdom…that’s pretty cool. It’s more than cool. Honestly though, there are not enough words to describe how I feel about this passage..I’ll just leave it at amazing.