Amid All The Hoopla

From My Perspective - - -

Here we are – a big travel week; a big shopping week; big family gatherings; big quantities of food for ones indulgence; big expenditure of monies; big increase in personal credit debt; big disappointment when your “better and best” football team loses – Happy Thanksgiving Everyone – seems to have a hollow ring to it.

Besides the personal gratification, there should be a time for pause amid all the hoopla. The economy has no forecast of improvement at this point; danger spots in the world are escalating their saber-rattling; travel and the passing through body-scanners is a new phenomenon (as well as being frisked and groped) because of the threat of terrorism.

Amid all the hoopla, can there be a time for looking to The Eternal God, The One Who is all-powerful and Who is fully capable of doing all things? Can we remember the words of Ephesians 3:20 that remind us He is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine? Can we unite, or if alone, raise a voice of Doxology to Almighty God?

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!

Praise Him, all creatures here below!

Praise Him above – ye heavenly host!

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost!

Can we unite in singing a Contemporary Worship Chorus?

Give thanks with a grateful heart,
Give thanks to the holy one,
Give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ, His Son

And now let the weak say I am strong;
Let the poor say I am rich;
because of what The Lord has done for us -
Give Thanks...!

Can you take a few brief moments – by yourself and with your family and guests - to read in a meaningful way – Psalm 100 (A Psalm of Thanksgiving – The New Living Translation)?

Shout with joy to the Lord, O earth!

Worship the Lord with gladness.

Come before him, singing with joy.

Acknowledge that the Lord is God!

He made us, and we are his.

We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates (His Presence) with thanksgiving;

Go into his courts (His Throne Room)with praise.

Give thanks to him and bless his name.

For the Lord is good.

His unfailing love continues forever,

and his faithfulness continues to each generation.

Amen!

We’ve come a long way as a nation and people. Let’s not forget Almighty God – He wants our attention and He desires our Thanksgiving! Consider these things with me!