Thanksgiving-By Elijah

  

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Today's post is pretty short!  Elijah wrote a post about Thanksgiving and its meaning, so I wanted to share it with all y’all.  Have a great Thanksgiving!

Most people think of Thanksgiving as the time when the Indians and the Pilgrims sat down for a meal; they all prepared together and were thankful for the ability to have a meal that they prepared, and they were thankful for the help they received from the Indians, as well as a sort of peace treaty.  However, a fact that most people don’t know, because it’s not in the history books, was that after the meal, the Pilgrims kindly gave the Indians blankets infested with smallpox.  Which was very deadly at the time because there was no cure for it.  It was the Pilgrims’ version of population control towards the Indians to force them out.

Other people tend to lean more toward the season of thankfulness because it is said that the Pilgrims were thankful for the meal. Thanksgiving is a national holiday commemorating the spirit of thankfulness.  Much like Valentine’s Day is the national holiday of love, we don’t love our spouses once a year.  We are supposed to love each other all year round. The same thing goes with Thanksgiving. We are not to be thankful just once a year, but all year around. 

Many passages in the Bible deal with the spirit of Thanksgiving and how you should be thankful all the time.  For example, Leviticus 7:12 says “He shall offer also his offering with cakes of leavened bread, for his peace offerings, to give thanks.”  Also, Nehemiah 12:27 “And in the dedication of the wall at Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places to bring them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication and gladness, both with thanksgivings and with songs, cymbals, viols and with harps.”  Last but definitely not least, in verses of giving thanksgiving is, Jeremiah 30:19 “And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that are joyous, and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few: I will also glorify them, and they shall not be diminished.”  The commentary on “thanksgiving” in the last verse says, “He shows how the people shall be with praise and thanksgiving acknowledge these benefits.”

Christians are to give thanks for all things, as the apostle Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”  Yes, most people look forward to the day of Thanksgiving, family and friends gather, there is good food and merriment.  There are a lot of the population who can go the entire year without thinking about the blessings they have received, and then on Thanksgiving, the blessings all come to light.  But then on Black Friday everyone spends large amounts of money on new “blessings” that they take credit for.  

Psalms 100:4 says, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”  Let that verse serve as a reminder to think of the blessings that God gives you through the year and not just on one day.
Also, a friendly reminder.  Remember your blessings every day! God will give you many blessings throughout the day, you just need to stop and see them!

 Thanks y’all have a great day!