Celebrate Thanksgiving

 Celebrate Thanksgiving

We have just celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving.  It is largely considered as merely the precursor to Christmas for we have forgotten its roots in our culture.

Thanksgiving is more than pardoning a turkey at the White House and serving its less fortunate relatives with boundless side dishes in every home throughout the land.  Thanksgiving is a time when each of us should bow before our wondrous Savior and thank HIM for delivering us from the evil that dwells within us.  

Each of us is steeped in sin and CHRIST'S life and propitiatory death in our behalf allows us to escape the pangs of eternal separation from our GOD who is too holy to look upon our sin.

May we each pray the prayer of II Chronicles 7:14 -- "IF MY PEOPLE, WHO AEE CALLED BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN AND FORGIVE THEIR SIN AND HEAL THEIR LAND."

Each of us individually, and our land as a whole, are in desperate need of redemption.  May we implore Him to deliver us.  May we not neglect so great a salvation.