Psalm 100:3-5 “Know that the Lord is God. It is
he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his
pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and
praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures
forever; his faithfulness continues
through all generations.”
I’d
simple like to wish you and yours a blessed Thanksgiving Day. May the
providence of Almighty God be the focus of our hearts today and everyday. God
bless you.
Remember the original
intent of this Holy Day. Here is part of President Abraham Lincoln ’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of October 3, 1863:
The year that is drawing toward its close
has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these
bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the
source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so
extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart
which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence
of Almighty God. No human counsel hath
devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who while dealing
with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me
fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully
acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I
do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States , and also those who
are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and
observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our
beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to
them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due
to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with
humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His
tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers
in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently
implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the
nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine
purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union. In testimony whereof,
I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to
be affixed." - Abraham Lincoln
Happy Thanksgiving, happy thanksliving, and thanks be to God!
In Christ, Brian
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