"THANKSGIVING," not "Feast Day"!!!




     Pagan America has replaced "Thanksgiving" with the term "Feast Day," or "Turkey Day." This is yet another rejection of anything related to God and especially Christianity. The original day of "Thanks-giving" was to remember and express gratitude for God's providential care. Early settlers, though not all Christians, were God-fearing enough to recognize His hand in their affairs and give thanks. Not today. Today the emphasis is not giving thanks to God nor recognizing His providential care, but on food and eating. Personal pleasure has replaced humble gratitude. For American hedonists, "Feast Day" means pigging out, stuffing oneself. It is a day of vacation from work to watch sports, lounge around and eat too much. Gluttony is featured as various ones make fools of themselves eating ridiculous amounts of food and videoing it for You Tube, etc.

     Those who don't believe and are not thankful to God, who do not wish to spend a day remembering His care and expressing thanks, should not keep the day, but go to work! It is a holiday of Thanks-giving, and if you're not thankful to God, it's not for you. Find some other reason to take a day off!
     By the way, unthankfulness is one of the marks of spiritual degeneration mentioned in Romans 1:21-22,

"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." 

But grateful believers can say, in the words of 2 Samuel 22:50   "Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name." 

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