{"id":3121,"date":"2022-11-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2024-01-18T19:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:27:02","slug":"let-them-give-thanks-to-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/let-them-give-thanks-to-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Give Thanks to the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cLet them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love
and His wonderful deeds for men.\u201d
(Psalm 107:8)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThanksgiving Day\u201d originated in America, but the virtue of thanksgiving did not. Thanksgiving is as old as man himself. So is the lack of it. \u201cBless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.\u201d
(Psalm 103:2)<\/em> Gratitude unto the heavenly Father is fundamental to a child of God. The man who forgets to be thankful has forgotten how blessed he is. Thanksgiving is not just a time of the year, but an attitude of the heart. W. E. Sangster wrote: \u201cSo far as thanksgiving is concerned, the mass of people can be divided into two classes: Those who take things for granted and those who take things with gratitude.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the greatest causes of evil in the world is that man has failed to be thankful to God. Man\u2019s attention is so often focused on what we do not have rather than what we have. Counting our blessings is a great and profitable exercise. Adam and Eve, in the very beginning, were not satisfied with thanking God for His bountiful provisions for them. They focused rather on what was not given to them and \u201cbecame futile in their thinking.\u201d<\/em> We are sometimes no different by neglecting to thank God for what we have and complaining over what we do not have. Gratitude is the heart\u2019s memory. Thanksgiving is such a powerful and effective anecdote for the sins that plague our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThanksgiving\u201d is a wonderful holiday. Grant it, there is not the focus on Christ as there is with \u201cChristmas,\u201d but neither is it so commercialized. It is a great holiday for the family. We are hosting both sides of our family for Thanksgiving this year. It\u2019s a lot of work, but it\u2019s worth it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand, thanksgiving is much more than a verbal declaration; thanksgiving is a life! Among the sacrifices the Jews were commanded to offer was one called the \u201cThank Offering.\u201d<\/em> The Christian is to offer a thank offering to God. Paul wrote: \u201cI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present (offer) your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.\u201d (Romans 12:1) The greatest thanksgiving of all is \u2018thanksliving.\u2019 We will all be better people and better servants of God if we can use this coming \u201cThanksgiving Day\u201d as a primer for the whole year ahead. \u201cGive thanks in all circumstances, for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
(I Thessalonians 5:18).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLet them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing loveand His wonderful deeds for men.\u201d(Psalm 107:8) \u201cThanksgiving Day\u201d originated in America, but the virtue of thanksgiving did not. Thanksgiving is as old as man himself. So is the lack of it. \u201cBless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.\u201d(Psalm 103:2)… Continue reading Let Them Give Thanks to the Lord<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","category-marks-messages","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}