“The Forgotten Holiday”

Have you noticed something I’ve noticed? Have you noticed that Halloween has begun to be celebrated with insane amounts of special events and fervor and that as soon as November 1st hits more people and companies have decided to immediately shift their focus to Christmas? Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think it is. I believe over the past several years we are beginning to be conditioned to forget about the least commercialized holiday of all…Thanksgiving.

I really don’t know why this has happened, but I have a couple of guesses. One is that most businesses don’t profit off of Thanksgiving as much as they do Halloween and Christmas. With all the candy, costumes, and decorations that are purchased for the former and all the gifts and decorations purchased for the latter, it likely makes financial sense for them to focus on those two special days. Secondly and most importantly, the devil doesn’t like people being thankful and is doing all he can to keep us distracted by other things.

Let me encourage you to not allow him to do this to you. Don’t forget Thanksgiving...the holiday that is set aside for us to remember and give thanks to God for all of the blessings we have received from His hand. He has been far better to each of us that we discern and even if we lost every material possession we have, we would still be blessed because God the Father sent Jesus Christ the Son to be the Savior of the world!

So..don’t forget Thanksgiving and seek to cultivate a life of Thanks-living, where you pause on a continual basis to give praise to God for who He is, what He’s done, what He’s doing, and what He’s going to do.

He deserves all glory and honor and praise!

Serving Him with You,

Bro. Mat