How many pairs of shoes do you have?
Published 9:55 pm Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Let us take the special day, Thanksgiving, and bow our heads and give God thanks and praise for blessing us so abundantly. It has been said that if you have two pairs of shoes, you are wealthier than half the people in the world. How many pair of shoes do you have?
God has blessed us with food, good health, jobs, families, spouses, cars, homes, schools, clothes, shoes, great nation, beautiful state, freedom, peace, clean water and flesh air, to name a few things. But the greatest gift of all was the love that God demonstrated by providing a way of salvation, when we didn’t deserve it. The Bible says while we were yet sinner, God paid the price to redeem us with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Thereby giving us hope.
Let’s celebrate this Thanksgiving, but never forget that we owe God, not just thanksgiving, but also our praise, allegiance, our love and our devotion. As the Bible says, fear God, keep his commandments, and worship he who made the heaven and earth and then redeemed us. As Psalm 150 says, “Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord, praise the Lord.”
Happy Thanksgiving.
Donald Werner
Northfield