Thanksgiving Day is a time when you can concentrate on your love, because that is the holiday we are celebrating today. We’ve all seen people savoring what they’re appreciative for, and perhaps your family does the same. ( To be honest, I ca n’t imagine that the cliché of everyone dressing up for the Thanksgiving table is all that common, but whatever. )
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Growing up, I had form of an adversarial relationship with Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, according to my childhood memories, outperformed the more significant vacation that occurred the same week, namely my holiday, despite the conspicuous connotation that I only had to attend school on my birthday several or three days.
As an child who is getting more sophisticated with each day, I love Thanksgiving. I love most of the food, I love how it leads us right into the Christmas season, and I love how the” Clean Conventional Dislike” of the Georgia-Georgia Tech activity follows soon after. ( Go Dawgs! )
I love Thanksgiving because it offers a reason to give cheers, in my opinion, but most importantly, I love it because of what it offers. You’ve read some of my Sunday Thoughts columns, and I understand how significant devotion and reward are to me, and they continue to be in my Thanksgiving celebrations.
Flashback:  , Thursday Thoughts: Thanksgiving All Year Long
The Bible offers many thanksgiving-giving words ( each of the following verses are from the English Standard Version ). You can show your gratitude in abundance using the poems as a whole.
” Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his judges with reward! Provide thanks to him, thank his title”! Psalm 100: 4 encourages us.
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” Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever”, declares Psalm 136: 1.
Psalm 147: 7 encourages us to” Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving”, while King David says in Psalm 69: 30,” I will praise the name of God with a song, I will magnify him with thanksgiving”.
Song 92: 1-2 tells us that” It is nice to give thanks to the Lord, to speak compliments to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your steadfast like in the morning, and your devotion by day”.
Thanksgiving was an providing under the old covenant, and the holidays that Israeli people also observe today include gratitude are a part of it. The princes of Israel and Judah thanked God for his safety and retribution against rivals. Despite Israel’s ongoing wanderings away from God, the saints also acknowledged God’s devotion.
The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18,” Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”. He admonished the Colossian church to” Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving” ( Colossians 4: 2 ).
Hebrews 13: 15-16 recommends that Christians” continue to offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name” ( Hebrews 13: 15-16 ). And Paul told the Corinthian church,” But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” ( 1 Corinthians 15: 57 ).
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The Apostle John said,” We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to rule,” ( Revelation 11: 16-17 ), and that we will be praising and thanking God throughout eternity.
But this give thanks to the Lord every day, not just now!
