Groveland, FL
Ken Hamilton
Charles Dickens said that we are somewhat mixed up here in America. He told an audience that instead of having one Thanksgiving Day each year we should have 364. “Use that one day just for complaining and griping,” he said. “Use the other 364 days to thank God each day for the many blessings He has showered upon you.”
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Thank God for Dirty Dishes
Thank God for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
We’re eating very well
With home, health, and happiness,
I shouldn’t want to fuss:
By the stack of evidence,
God’s been very good to us.
Ron Thonnas
Thanksgiving is, in the eyes of some, esteemed as the greatest of holidays. When one thinks about the idea of thanksgiving, it is easy to appreciate the holiday as some do being the Those who are truly greatest of holidays.
thankful, however, are those who were once dead, but are now alive. The Lord spoke to the Jews and said that the hour was coming in which the dead would hear His voice and live John 5:25). The Lord was not referring to the second coming, for that He does in John 5:28-29. The Lord referred to those who heard His voice (orally, and through the written word) and responded to His holy will. They were dead in sin, but applying the truth of God’s word to their individual lives, they are now alive spiritually (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:17). Those who live, but were once dead, were dead in sin ( Ephesians 2:1-10), but now are alive in Christ. This is a time for Thanksgiving.
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By Joe Slater
“See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all'” (1 5:15). Thessalonians
In the text above, Paul’s word pursue is the same as “persecute elsewhere in the New Testament. It means to chase. Saul persecuted Christians by chasing them down to harm them. After becoming a Christian, the same man urged the Thessalonians to chase what was good for themselves and else. everyone By contrast, he urged them not to seek payback for ill treatment. Too many are bent on revenge! Jesus taught His disciples to “love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).
Revenge appeals to the it. above rise calls to God flesh, but us Paul exhorted Timothy to flee the love of money and all the pitfalls that go with it, and to “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness”” (1 Timothy 6:9-11). A few years later Paul urged him similarly: “Flee also youthful lusts: but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart” (2Timothy2:22).
Successfully chasing something takes energy; it takes time; it takes determination and perseverance. Is what you catch worth the effort? If you’re chasing revenge, money, or fulfillment of the fleshly appetites, you might say “yes” at first, but in the long run you’ll be disappointed. The pursuit of righteousness and good things, however, yields rich rewards both now and eternally.
Church of Christ in Justin, TX.
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