Growing up, I've loved Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was the time of year that we went to visit with my mother's family in Nashville and hang out with my cousins, aunts, uncles and my grandparents. Then through the weekend some extended family would come down and the party would really get going. Of course, other tenants of Thanksgiving like the food, and the football games also help to make the weekend fun as well.
However, even without those reasons there are many reasons that I enjoy Thanksgiving. It's the time where we intentionally set aside and reflect on the blessings that we have been given. Our health, our family, as Christians we have our salvation and so many other things. God tells us multiple times in the Bible that we should give thanks to Him:
- 1 Chronicles 16:34 - Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.
- Psalm 95:2 - Let us come before Him in thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song.
- Colossians 2:6-7 - So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- Colossians 3:17 - And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Now, having been in retail, I understand that the stores hit the black during the Christmas shopping season (starting right after Thanksgiving). However, if you are reading this I encourage you to take time this Thanksgiving, or regularly in your own life, and thank God for the things that he has done, or is doing with you.
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