This week our country will celebrate the holiday, "Thanksgiving". I hope as we celebrate this holiday that each of us will truly understand that God desires, and deserves our thanksgiving each and every day of the year and not just one day. I am thankful that we live in a country that has recognized the importance of being thankful.
With this in mind I would like to share with you what Abraham Lincoln' said in his Proclamation of Thanksgiving:
"We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity, we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. We have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue in our own lives. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
As I read these words spoken by President Lincoln in 1863, I think how much truer these words are today. Let us remember the 100th Psalm and commit it to our memories. Let each day come before the Lord with thanksgiving for it is He that hath made us and sustains us.
~In Gospel Power, Anderson, Alabama, 11/23/97.