Thanksgiving
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The First Thanksgiving….
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It
is nice to know that from the Old Testament that there was a feast,
(celebration), of Thanksgiving to God.
Therefore, we must be talking about the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving,
and over the past several decades the argument progresses against God, and
giving thanks to Him. This is coming hard
and furious from the liberals and non-Christian groups who continue to deny Christianity
as major part of our U.S. heritage. This
strikes me as odd, and hypocritical of the naysayers, they deny nonetheless
demand overtime and a half for working the holiday, or take it off and stuff
their bellies with the traditional meal.
It has come to the point of cities, states, and regions claiming that
the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in their domain. To me it was most likely at Plymouth, before
the first summer, and the reason was thanking God for giving them the new land,
and new freedom and keeping them safe through the perils aboard the Mayflower. They were separatists, a sect of the Puritans
from England. There is evidence to
support such and the Mayflower pact gives motive and purpose to their time of
thanksgiving. The others from Texas to
Main and Florida had no relevance to the New Country.
Nonetheless,
it all makes no never mind, glad it happened and I thank God everyday for the
link to the forming of the United States and the freedoms we have, it is said that
all men are free to worship according to the mandates of their own conscience, and
that is the best statement made on the subject.
Although it escapes my thinking why, over several decades, Christianity has
taken such a beating? The majority of
the citizens believe as the rest of the world believes, that the United States
is a Christian country, founded on those principals, and yet when the naysayers
object to the thought that God had a hand in the founding of this nation, Christianity
takes another beating? My message to the
immigrants who come to this nation and are offended by the public display of a
cross, or even the tablets of the ten commandments, they can go back and live
under the symbols of the better place they left to come to this nation. There is some things that just simply get my
goat. One of the worst things that is
happening, comes from within Christianity itself, they are either changing
spots to be accepted, or they just remain quiet for fear of being persecuted in
the press, or from the government. Nevertheless, very little is said in defense
of Christianity, except the sermons preached to the choir, (if the choir is in
attendance), Oh ye of little faith! The
constitution guarantees my freedom to worship according to the mandates of my
conscience without obstruction from the government. When did we loose that freedom? Also, when did history change the United
States from being a Christian nation, to an anti-Christian nation?
Perhaps
it was about the same time that we stopped with the pledge of allegiance in
school, or when they took a proper study of the constitution out of the text
books.
So this
Thanksgiving, my wife and I will give thanks to God for our Christian nation,
and all the blessings he gives to us, even though the nation seems in shambles,
and has turned from God fearing, to spitting in His eye. Even though we are seniors living way under
the poverty level, I know it is God who, through His grace, gives me all of
what we do have, and allows me the opportunity to still work a part time job to
help with the inflation, and deflation of retirement income. It has to be the hand of God at work, even
though I may not understand it now, He promises that one day I will. Thank you Jesus!
In closing,
I thank God for the many readers of this blog who keep me encouraged to keep
the battle against those who would take it all away, thank you God and bless
each of them.
Thanks
for following the blog.
P.B.
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