Today is my last Thanksgiving post this week. I pray each of you have a blessed gathering at your table of thanks.
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"May your stuffing be tasty,
May your turkey be plump.
May your potatoes and gravy
Have no lumps.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your
Thanksgiving Dinner
STAY OFF of your thighs!" (Unknown)
Today is Thanksgiving Eve and while that poem was meant to make you chuckle, it has a great spiritual lesson.
Today, tonight and tomorrow morning we will all be busy with the preparation work for our Thanksgiving meal. Cutting, mixing, blending, baking, roasting and cleaning.
Everyone who has ever hosted Thanksgiving in their home knows that it requires a lot of preparation work. It takes hard work to prepare all that our little poem describes. The turkey. The dressing. The potatoes. The yams. The desserts. And so much more.
Likewise, if we desire to have a heart of gratitude and serve God with a thankful heart; it takes preparation:
First; like a turkey we must be washed and cleansed. Before a turkey can be stuffed, it must be clean...
(Psalm 51:2) "Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin."
Secondly, like a turkey, we should be stuffed with the good stuff...
(Galatians 5:22,23) "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control."
When we start with these two ingredients in life; washed by the Blood and pursuing the fruits of the Spirit, an attitude of gratitude will come more easy. Instead of wearing our food on the outside (like the poem says), our spiritual food will spill out from the inside - from our washed but stuffed heart. 🦃
Gobble Gobble. Happy Thanksgiving!
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