Thanksgiving Thoughts
The Thanksgiving weekend is quickly approaching and with it comes turkey, stuffing, and often too much pumpkin pie. We can end up wondering "what was that all about?" and go back to work on Tuesday morning feeling full in our stomachs but empty in our hearts. I hope this won't be the case for you and I.
Personally, I think it is amazing that we have a holiday set aside to give thanks. "Give thanks" is a command of God and here we have the government ensuring that we have time to do it!
This year, I was thinking of celebrating Thanksgiving in a new way..... to give thanks for things I wasn't thankful for last year at this time but now I am. I see Thanksgiving as an opportunity to look at God's work in my life and to see how my perspective has changed. What am I going to give thanks for? The transformative potential of trials. I've know James 1:2-4 for years but I think I only came to want to obey it in the past year. "Consider it put joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." I'm thankful for God's tremendous redemptive power, for His help through hardship, and the fruit produced in our lives as we walk with Him.
What about you? Is there anything that you have become thankful for over this past year? Something in the past that you were bitter about but have become thankful for? Some truth of God's Word that He has revealed to you recently? Something that has happened this year that has brought you great joy?
Personally, I think it is amazing that we have a holiday set aside to give thanks. "Give thanks" is a command of God and here we have the government ensuring that we have time to do it!
This year, I was thinking of celebrating Thanksgiving in a new way..... to give thanks for things I wasn't thankful for last year at this time but now I am. I see Thanksgiving as an opportunity to look at God's work in my life and to see how my perspective has changed. What am I going to give thanks for? The transformative potential of trials. I've know James 1:2-4 for years but I think I only came to want to obey it in the past year. "Consider it put joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." I'm thankful for God's tremendous redemptive power, for His help through hardship, and the fruit produced in our lives as we walk with Him.
What about you? Is there anything that you have become thankful for over this past year? Something in the past that you were bitter about but have become thankful for? Some truth of God's Word that He has revealed to you recently? Something that has happened this year that has brought you great joy?
I'm commenting on all your posts today! It's weird they all speak to me in a different way... I used to be engaged (and dropped out of University to be with the guy), and the break up was pretty messy and I was hurt a lot. My confidence was shattered and I ended up going back to school, but trying college this time (thinking I wasn't good enough for university). Looking back on it, I was good enough for university (hey, I'm graduating from my masters in November), but the college experience built my confidence, solidified my skills and I'm working full-time at the college and love it. So, what looked like an awful situation not so long ago, I am so thankful that I had the experience, met the people and learned the things I really needed to know. I like this tradition Tracy... What else are you thankful for?
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