Thanksgiving?

 Praise the LORD!!!

   For those that know me, you know that I'm always praising the LORD for things within my life. Always, good and bad alike! I offer up my praises to GOD for them. For GOD is the one that is ultimately in control, nothing within our lives happens that HE hasn't allowed for some reason!!!

   In one of my devotionals this morning, it brought up this verse, 1 Thess.5:18:

     "Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus."

 The bulk of the article centered around this person helping a little girl make a 'rag-tag' playhouse in her backyard. Out of branches and pine needles or whatever was available. They later found a photo of people in Africa whose home was along these same line. Walls of tree limbs and mud, with a roof of straw and mud. To many around the globe this type of shelter is home. We as Americans can hardly imagine what their lives must be like, though our homeless have a clear picture of it.

   When we sit down for our Thanksgiving dinners tomorrow, we should really be aware of how greatly GOD has blessed us. For HE truly has! We should also give thanks to HIM for those people that are less fortunate then we are and ask that HE bless us with a compassionate heart to in some way reach out to those around the globe that are living in ways far less then ours. May HE lead us to understand their lives better and give us the willingness to consider them as our neighbors and reach out with the love HE has blessed us with.


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GOD bless and good day,

Rev. Marshall Barth

Vine of CHRIST Ministries

Vine Ministerial Network International