We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country” C.S. Lewis
Ephesians 5:17-21
So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. (NASB95)
Thanksgiving is not just a “holiday,” nor is it just about cooking turkeys or getting the best sales on “Black Friday.” It is a time when we stop and consider what is important, and it is not the physical temporal things that we hold on to so tightly, it is about considering the value of others.
We should take this time to be thankful for our physical family as well as our “eternal” spiritual family, and forget and lay aside all of our personal needs and wants and concentrate on the value of those around us. No one exists as an island, but we sure try to do that in todays world.
We are all gears in a time piece ticking for eternity, and we are all needed to work properly in God’s timing. We may not understand what God is doing all the time in us and others, but it is important for us to realize how much we need God, and each other to make it to an eternity where time shall be no more…God’s Blessings
Pastor William
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