Thanksgiving Day: Giving Thanks To God

[shodan]

Many Americans on this American holy day will have no clue about the origins of Thanksgiving Day.  Read the early Thanksgiving Day proclamations:

 

http://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/thanksgiving-a-christian-holiday-squelched-in-the-u-s-a/

 

 

 

 

[Hindsfeet]

And then they run out at midnight and let greed possess them for for a few hours, leaving their family to go fight crowds for the best deals of materialistic garbage. <sarcasm> Cuz they are grateful.

[kwikphilly]

Blessings shodan.....

    Thank you for posting a bit about the origin  of our American Tradition,,,,it is a wonderful time for our Nation to give Thanks to the Lord "as a Nation"....of course,everyday is the day the Lord has made & we shall rejoice and be glad in it but sometimes everyone could use a good reminder & Thanksgiving Day is one of those "reminders".................my family & I do not focus on the commercialism of what some try to turn this day into or their personal gains & greed.We are the Lords Living Testimonies,it is a great day to take the opportunity to say "Look what the Lord has done!!!!"& share a meal with a stranger & show them that because we are so blessed ,we can also be a blessing to others,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,                            Glory to God & Happy,Blessed Thanksgiving Day                                          With love-in Christ,Kwik

[Willa]

Thank you so much for that glimpse of history.

We are among the waning numbers who give thanks to God on Thanksgiving. We do not celebrate "Turkey Day", nor do we substitute Halloween for the opportunity to have a special day of gratitude, nor do we allow a "right jolly old elf" to take the place of Christ Incarnate.

I find it distasteful that the god of materialism has been crowding out our sacred days. Each year the media has announced how much people spend on halloween and Christmas and how little they spend on Thanksgiving. How crass! So our progressive leadership wants the day of Thanksgiving to be taken from our rememberance and removed as a national holiday. Should we instead spend the day mobbing stores in greed and increase our credit card debt? Vanity.

Fairy tail after fairy tail tells how someone stole Christmas. It is true. The enemy is blinding eyes so that people may not see the incarnate Christ, or hear the gospel in the words of the Christmas Carols.

People today are becoming less and less thankful to anyone or for anything. We have been taught to demand our rights and entitlements because we have pride and should not feel indebted or inferior to anyone, especially to a "ficticious" God. So goes the great American tragedy. Pride is being substituted for thanksgiving.

We need to be vigilant that we are not sucked into the frenzy with the rest of the world. It would be so easy to lose the sweetness of our holy days.

[Leonardo Von]

On 11/22/2014 at 1:21 PM, shodan said:

Many Americans on this American holy day will have no clue about the origins of Thanksgiving Day.  Read the early Thanksgiving Day proclamations:

http://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/thanksgiving-a-christian-holiday-squelched-in-the-u-s-a/

Thanksgiving to the Eternal cannot happen only once in a year, but every moment. Gratitude is that it allows us to be happy now, as well as allowing us to take advantage of everything we are living in order to be perfected and thus to experience the good, pleasing and perfect will of the Eternal (Romans 12:2).

Analyze the praise of the four living creatures:

 

• “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever," (Rev. 4.8,9).

 

First thing to be noted is that the proclamation of the living beings of Revelation 4:8 is not a physical praise. First, this is contrary to Jesus' command (Matthew 6:6). Also, note what is said here: "when those beasts give glory...". Unfortunately, there is a difference in this verse: there are versions that appears written "whenever the living creatures give glory gave glory and honor and thanksgiving,". The last seems more coherent, since the four living beings remain all the time praising the Eternal.

Therefore, the proclamation of Revelation 4:8 represents not mere words spoken, but the essence of the gospel message.

When the whole gospel has been preached (see Matthew 24:13) and the fullness of the Gentiles, entered into the Kingdom of the Eternal, the twenty-four elders will give to the Eternal:

 

• Glory, that is, a place so that all know Him totally;

• Honor, namely, continuity to all that He is forever;

• Thanksgiving, that is, will express gratitude on behalf of all the angels (whom they represent) for the privilege of having known Him through the Church (Ephesians 3:8-10; 1 Peter 1:10-12);

 

May Jesus enable us to live a life of praise and worship.