Giving Thanks

Five days ago was Thanksgiving holiday. The only national holiday in America that started, and still is, Christian, this is often a time of family togetherness and tradition. It is a time when we all thank God for His many blessings, most of all that of salvation and the cross.

Yet we seem to miss an important point. While we are right in giving thanks for this, we sometimes fail to realize how blessed we really are. Have you ever stopped to consider how fortunate your life is?

How can we complain about not having certain things when 3 billion of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day? Why is it that we take family and friends for granted when every hour, over 1,600 children were forced to live on the streets? We somehow feel as if it is our right to money in the bank, own a nice house and a car or two. Billions have never experienced that.

But the thing we forget to be thankful for is our freed to follow Christ as we wish. We think it is normal to have several copies of God’s Word for our own. How can we carry on our lives as if nothing is wrong when 80,000 people die every 24 hours that never had the chance to hear the Gospel even once? We act like nothing is wrong while our brothers and sisters in other nations are persecuted for their faith. In over 50 countries they are not even allowed to possess a Bible.

This post is not only to help you, my reader, realize how blessed we really are, but to also spring you to action. This world needs Jesus; do your part in bringing Him to the lost and hurting. If you can go, then send someone who is going. Be the change this world is so desperate for. Do something significant for eternity and God’s Kingdom; you will never regret it.

 

-Reagan Schrock, GOA blog manager