Happy Thanksgiving

2 Peter 1:3 (NIV84)

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Good morning Zebras,

I woke up this morning thinking about how I would explain Thanksgiving to someone from another country.  From my public school education I remember it to be a holiday started when the Pilgrims and Native Americans got together to share a meal and give thanks to God for the bountiful harvest He had provided.

I assume they were thankful because the harvest was going to enable them to survive the winter.

Then I started thinking if Thanksgiving were invented today it would be more likely we’d celebrate it in the spring.  After we had survived the winter, we would all get together and give thanks that we had made it through.  A sort of  “Yeah God, You came through again!” party.

But which is a more Biblical approach?

I think it is the first.  We should, in faith, give thanks to God for what He has already done knowing that what He has done has changed the future.

So have a wonderful Thanksgiving little Zebras, giving thanks to God for sending His Son which gave us eternal life and the ability, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, to overcome anything that comes our way.

Love,

Jill