Thanks for What?

Some families are sitting together to eat and give thanks in the United States. For many, however, it is a workday, or between two heavy workdays, with efforts to survive. For still others, it is a day like any other — without freedom, with too much conflict, with oppression, with loneliness, and with abuses that destroy. Can they give thanks? Here a little and there a little, nearly everyone tries to find instances to give thanks, but for what? In the long run, for what can one give thanks?

Consider a short portion of a part of the tenth chapter of Luke in the Bible, where Jesus has a very interesting statement to those returning from going through the land at his command. They had done and seen great things.

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18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

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Where is your name written? That is the bottom line, the last question, and the first question.

Thanks for temporal things is found in the world at large, but the only thanks with power, with effect, and with a touch that reaches to eternal things is that which has a root or connection to the Creator of the human soul. A relationship with Him is as possible with any circumstance — good or bad. His life was and is intended to be the light of men (John 1). Life outside that relationship,  with all of its drama and commotion, cannot deliver the peace that settles the human heart.

If you have not met this One we are speaking of, please send us a message if you want to talk about it.

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