So you've been there before. Thanksgiving Dinner--- The turkey and dressing, mash potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, okra, tomatoes, potato salad, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, green beans, rolls, cornbread, macaroni and cheese, cooked cabbage, green salad, smoked ham, jello salad, squash casserole, fried chicken all the way down to the pumpkin pie, pecan pie, chocolate cake, red-velvet cake, peanut brittle, ice-cream, peach/apple/blueberry/blackberry cobbler, candybars, hearshy-almond chocolate pie, peanut-butter pie, rocky-road mudslide dump cake, punch dump cake, chocolate coated pretzels and peanuts...and the list goes on.
So you are in the next room watching the Thanksgiving parade (in between flipping back and forth with football and fighting over the remote) when grandma is cooking up a storm. The smell is bliss. You are tired of the fighting and the boredom of the murmers of your extended relatives, so you follow your nose to the kitchen. You innocently stand beside the food bar as you look to your left, look to your right and take a quick glance behind and in front of you to make sure no-one is looking...and then...you sneak just a little taste of your favorite something. Thanksgiving Dinner has begun. Sure, you haven't had the prayer and no one except grandma is in the kitchen. But you look to your left, look to your right and take a quick glance behind and in front of you to make sure no-one is looking...and then...you sneak another taste of Thanksgiving Dinner. And you don't stop until you fall asleep.
God is Thanksgiving Dinner--- The love, the joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, passion, mercy, grace, salvation, purity, holiness, praise, contentment, perserverance, godliness, readiness, faith, knowledge, Truth, prayers...just to name a few.
So you are in the world watching and partaking of the sinful nature. Fighting with your enemies...AND your friends, flipping between what to do Friday night and Saturday night. But Daddy is cooking up a storm. The smell is bliss. You are tired of the fighting and the boredom of the murmers of the world, so you follow your nose to Christianity. And when your friends are too busy to notice-you look to your left, look to your right and take a quick glance behind and in front of you...and there Christianity is. There stands God. You take a bite, and sneak another taste of Him. And you don't stop until you fall asleep.
THANKS be to God for his feast He sets before us. Now let us GIVE the feast to the world that surrounds us, because the sad thing is...some fall asleep too early.
"O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you." Psalm 63:1-5
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